Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Multiplied Wattage. In total hours beamed over short wave, VOA, with 854 hours a week, is behind Russia (1,403 hours) and China (1,015 hours), and is only slightly ahead of the United Arab Republic (827 hours). However, by freely offering local stations tapes of its own programs and live broadcasts of special events, such as U.S. space shots, VOA vastly multiplies its wattage...
...Greece's young King Constantine is at loggerheads with the politicians in a country where politics is played like karate (a sport at which Constantine excels). Jordan's Hussein is doing his best to stave off antimonarchist rioters instigated by his leftist neighbors, Syria and the United Arab Republic. Only last week the new African nation Burundi ended the 400-year-long tribal rule of King Ntare...
...Arab monarchy still involves subtleties and power plays difficult to find elsewhere. In Morocco, since protocol requires that ministers kiss the King's right hand, and royal etiquette says that the King should draw his hand away before contact is made, the speed at which the King pulls away is an indication of the importance a man carries at court. (The method is, at any rate, simpler than many signals of favor and disfavor given at Communist courts or even in democratic presidential mansions.) Last year Morocco's King Hassan dissolved Parliament and has been running the country...
...Arabs themselves stand to become the chief victims of both the boycott and the seizure. Most of the money invested in the region's Ford, Coca-Cola and RCA facilities is Arab capital, paid to buy franchises or set up dealerships. On top of that, 33,000 Arab employees of Coca-Cola and 6,000 workers in Ford enterprises, (350 of them at Alexandria) face the loss of their jobs...
There's never been so much excitement in Shapiro Gym. Brandeis fans with ram's horns, Arab headgear, and trumpets, yelled themselves hoarse and loved it, even though Harvard mashed their basketball team by 25 points...