Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...included 1) Negro membership on all committees, though they made up only about 20% of the delegates; 2) "white civilizing" committees to "humanize the savage and beastlike character of whites" as "exemplified by Lyndon Baines Johnson"; and 3) condemnation of the "im perialistic Zionist war" between Israel and the Arab states...
...South Arabia was overthrown last week, but where were the people who toppled it? The British-backed sultans, sheiks and emirs were all on the lam, and no one came to take their place. Nine of the 14 Cabinet members were abroad taking "health cures," talking with other Arab leaders or simply salting away their money in foreign banks. Four others were missing-either kidnaped by nationalist rebels or in hiding. That left Hussein Ali Bayoomi, the Information Minister, as almost the lone government official in the deserted federal capital of Al Ittihad. "The government is finished," said Bayoomi...
...aftermath of their Khartoum summit meeting, some Arab nations finally began to patch up their quarrels with one another. They also began to deal more rationally with the West. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya dropped their oil embargo against the U.S. and Britain and reaffirmed their promise to subsidize Egypt and Jordan to the tune of $392 million a year as long as "traces of Israeli aggression" persist. Egypt and Sudan restored landing rights to Britain's BOAC, and Egypt was on the verge of allowing T.W.A. back into Cairo. Even those two archenemies among the Arabs-Egypt...
Union organizers from Israel's giant Histadrut labor federation are already signing up recruits in the Arab quarter...
Long-Frustrated Revenge. Beneath the intellectuals' loftv professions of humanitarianism, Political Writer John Mander discerns some ugly undercurrents. "The Arab-Israeli war has perhaps given the game away," he writes...