Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history, more than 20,000 U.S. civilians fled the area by cab and cattle boat, cruise ship and jetliner. About 35,000 Americans-mostly oil-company employees, military personnel and foreign service officers-remained behind, but U.S. consulates and embassies were ready to evacuate them as well should Arab hysteria continue to rise...
...American University in Beirut was hit by Molotov cocktails, and Americans were insulted openly in the streets -in many cases for show. In Beirut, cabled TIME Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, "an Arab friend accosted me on the street, mumbled, 'I have to do this or my friends won't respect me,' and spat literally in my face...
...Hawks. Back in the U.S., relatives and friends anxious for news from Israel clogged phone lines so badly that they had to reserve calls three weeks in advance. Calls to Arab countries were also delayed by a week; Arab support across the nation, however, was all but nonexistent. Some 200 Arab demonstrators, including a few Black Muslims and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee members, mounted a picket line in front of the White House. But they were drowned out by some 20,000 demonstrators across the street who assembled to urge U.S. support for Israel and wound up celebrating Egypt...
...fever was high enough already. Cascading around the U.S. embassies and cultural centers in Cairo, Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, Benghazi, Tunis, Algiers, Amman and Khartoum, the ever-ready Arab mobs screamed obscenities. Windows were shattered in the Lebanese and Syrian U.S. embassies, and official cars-ignited by the mobs-burned fiercely in embassy compounds...
...along the banks of the muddy Nile. No matter that only the night before, President Gamal Abdel Nasser had welcomed Iraq to the Egypto-Jordanian alliance against Israel, and proclaimed: "We are so eager for battle in order to force the enemy to awake from his dreams and meet Arab reality face to face." Fixed in their own routine, the residents of Nasser's capital listened to the unfamiliar sound of the siren and continued?for a time?to go about their business...