Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington considers him not only a friend but an energetic, intelligent and responsible ruler-a potentate with potential. Although Morocco is officially nonaligned, Hassan leans unwaveringly toward the West, even gives silent sympathy to the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. More important, his refusal to take part in the Arab boycott against Israel has made him a possible moderator, at least in Washington's eyes, in the Middle East's most explosive running crisis...
Because of Yemen, the Middle East last week resounded with the crash of terrorist bombs, the blows of murder and the rising wails of Arab leaders, who seemed to have completely abandoned their once-vaunted drive for unity. After a period of lull, the Yemen war has heated up again, but this time the bloodiest fighting is not between royalist and republican; it is among the republicans themselves, who control the southern third of the country (including the capital of San'a) with the help of Nasser's 47,000-man occupation army. Pro-republican tribesmen, who were...
...Finished Forever." The sizzling Yemen war seems to have ended any hopes for a reconciliation within the Arab world. Last week King Feisal canceled the licenses of two Egyptian banks in Saudi Arabia-the Bank of Cairo and the Misr Bank-and Nasser retaliated by confiscating all of Feisal's Egyptian property, which is valued at about $47 million. In a setback for Nasser, Tunisia broke diplomatic relations with his puppet republican regime in Yemen, saying that the Sallal government no longer has power to govern the country...
Scheduled meetings of the Arab finance ministers and the Arab Defense Council, two proud pinnacles of "Arab summitry," have been postponed for at least a month, and Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Tunisia plan to boycott the sessions. "As the situation now stands," said Nasser last week, "Arab summits are finished forever." In turn, the usually unexcitable Feisal strongly defended "our right to defend ourselves," and at week's end went into a strategy session on Yemen with visiting King Hussein of Jordan, whose overthrow the Egyptians are known to favor...
...little real power but confers upon those who sit in it great prestige and, it is widely suspected, considerable wealth. One reason for the prestige was that most of the 468,000 persons who live in Kuwait cannot be candidates; barriers to citizenship are high for the thousands of Arabs who have immigrated since the discovery of oil. Among the 27,000 males who are eligible to vote, however, the Amir allowed more opposition to his government's policies than ever before. Most of it was from leftists who object to his aloofness from the rest of the Arab...