Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than ten days, Cairo chose to remain a city under siege. Windows stayed blacked out, sandbags and anti-bomb walls were still being built in front of public buildings, people were still being stopped for security checks. Huge ack-ack guns clanked their way through the city streets. The Arab Socialist Union, Egypt's only political party, began recruiting a popular militia. To keep returning Egyptian troops from spilling the real battle story, Nasser quarantined them outside Cairo; and many families that lost sons or husbands in the war have not yet been notified of their deaths...
Defensive Winner. In that forlorn effort, the Arabs were not without friends. At the head of the list were Russia and the rest of the Soviet bloc, which would like nothing better than to keep the Middle East in chaos, prevent it from supplying oil to the West, and drive the U.S. completely out of the area. There were also the nonaligned states, which regard Nasser as one of their prophets. There was India, which never loses a chance to woo Arab support for its Kashmir dispute with Moslem Pakistan. And there were some Black African nations whose leaders feel...
...hear Nasser and the rest of the Arab world tell it, they had not only clobbered Israel; they were getting ready to do it all over again. Egypt, which lost 356 planes and 700 tanks in the war, was receiving regular shipments of Soviet MIGs and tanks. To make up for the 15,000 Egyptian soldiers killed, captured or missing, Nasser simply recalled 15,000 of his troops from Yemen. Why not? They had not been notoriously successful there either...
...over. We are preparing for the second round, and this time we will call the shots." To make sure he would do the shot calling, Nasser sacked his Prime Minister, named himself to the job, organized a new 28-man Cabinet, and took full charge of the Arab Socialist Union...
Jerusalem, though, is another matter. No U.N. resolution or Arab bluster is likely to shake Israeli determination to stay in the Old City. Some religious leaders have already begun to lobby for the erection of a Third Temple (see RELIGION), although the Israelis have also offered to permit a commission of Moslems and Christians to administer the holy places of each religion. They have promised freedom of access to all shrines in a Jerusalem entirely under Israeli control...