Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Situated in the bowl of an extinct volcano, the Arab quarter of the British colony of Aden is known as the Crater. Last week the Crater erupted with belching smoke from terrorists' grenades and bullets. At least 16 people were killed and 46 injured in disorders provoked by rival nationalist organizations. British troops put down street demonstrations with truncheons and tear gas, while the rioters threw up rock barricades across the dingy alleys to hamper them. At stake was the issue of who should rule Aden's 250,000 people when the British make their scheduled departure some...
...soon as he learned of the story, Israeli Minister of Justice Jacob Shapiro ordered all copies of Bui confiscated and the two editors thrown in jail-nominally for espionage, but actually because Premier Levi Eshkol feared mention of any link between Arab Morocco and Israel. Eshkol had privately told a group of editors, not including Bui's, that Israel had helped organize the Moroccan secret service in return for fair treatment of Moroccan Jews. Later, Eshkol said, the Moroccans had asked Israel to help kidnap Ben Barka, but Israel had refused to commit itself. Even so, if word...
...tread lightly, but that is not Nasser's style. Last week, in his most anti-American speech since 1964-when he told Washington to "go drink the Red Sea" -Nasser accused the U.S. (to which he owes $169.2 million), and the CIA in particular, of "supporting those Arab prostitutes," King Hussein of Jordan and King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, "in a conspiracy against Arab progress." Speaking for two hours at Cairo University, he also excoriated the U.S. for selling arms to Israel and accused Washington of "waging a war of starvation against the Egyptian people" by withholding shipments...
...blood among the Arab countries has sent scores of defectors criss crossing in the air lanes. Sallal's charge d'affaires at the Yemeni embassy in Czechoslovakia last week flew to Beirut and announced that he was on his way to offer his services to the royalists. A Jordanian army officer went over to the Egyptian side. And an Egyptian intelligence officer armed with a Sten gun forced the pilot of an Egyptian turboprop airliner bound for a Red Sea port to fly him to Jordan, where he took political asylum...
...orthodox Jewish family, but chose instead to live out what he regarded as "the Christian ethic," becoming an ardent socialist and Labor Party pamphleteer in his politics and a humanitarian in all else, espousing such diverse causes as the abolition of capital punishment, postwar relief for Germany, aid for Arab refugees of the Arab-Israeli war, and most surprisingly, clemency for Nazi Murderer Adolph Eichmann; of a stroke; in London...