Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this may not move Algerian President Houari Boumediene, who must give ultimate approval if Tshombe is to be extradited, but there were other factors that may have caused him to delay his decision. In exchange for Tshombe, Boumediene hopes to get Mobutu's support for Arab policies in the U.N. and perhaps also to loosen the Congo's close ties with Israel. His intelligence men may also want to get as much information as they can out of Tshombe, including the details of Lumumba's death, which some say Mobutu also had a hand...
...counting arrears to the Soviet bloc) now approaching $1.5 billion and his foreign-exchange reserves down to $100 million, Nasser is going to have a tough time dodging bankruptcy. To make up for lost trade with the West, he is negotiating new trade and loan agreements with his Arab fellow socialists, the Communists, and sympathetic non-aligned nations like India. Last week Poland gave him a $20 million loan for industrial development, and East Germany announced $100 million more credits. But the strain will continue as long as Nasser insists upon keeping Egypt on a war footing against Israel...
Since the Arab-Israeli war in June, Jerusalem has once again been a matter for cartographic concern-not to mention diplomatic debates and tourist-promotion schemes. Joyful that the shrines of the Old City are in Jewish hands for the first time in nearly 2,000 years, Jews from all over the world are signing up for pilgrimages. Plane and boat reservations for trips from France to Israel are sold out for two months in advance. "Israel," says TWA sales manager in Chicago, John J. Sweeney, "is a hot destination." Wary about the possibility of renewed hostilities, gentiles have been...
...divided among Christian sects-an arrangement that was adopted by the British when they captured Jerusalem from the Turks in 1917, and was maintained throughout Britain's 31-year occupation. The trouble-ridden British mandate lasted until the creation of Israel in 1948. One year later, ending the Arab-Israeli war, the U.N. ordered Jerusalem's division. Jordan won the less populous but more venerable Old City, containing most of the shrines...
This month, Israeli authorities started bulldozing abandoned Arab shacks clustered around the walls of the Old City; they plan to replace the hovels with a park. In addition, the Arab portion of Jerusalem is rapidly being incorporated into the Israeli New City, under the direction of Mayor Teddy Kollek, 56. Unified water, telephone and bus services have been restored in Jerusalem, and the majority of Arab civil servants from the Old City have been given jobs in Kollek's municipal government. Thanks partly to the incorporation of suburban areas to the north and south, the city's population...