Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middle East heated up, Hussein began drafting all able-bodied Jordanians between 18 and 40, sent an urgent request to Washington to speed up delivery of 36 promised F-104 interceptor jets, and accepted help from the only Arab leader to come to his aid -Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who offered to put 20,000 troops at Hussein's disposal. The United Nations last week got around to censuring Israel for the original attack, but that was small consolation for Hussein. Jordan's 350-mile border with Israel is just too long to screen, and more...
...Arab world's 15-year-old boy cott of Israel - and of foreign companies that do more than just sell finished goods to Israel - has up to now produced a lot of political smoke but not much economic fire. Unevenly applied and quixotically enforced, the blacklist has up to now proved mostly a nuisance to Israel, while many corporations abroad have found ways to dodge...
Widespread Repercussions. At its semiannual meeting in Kuwait, the Boy cott Office of the 13-nation Arab League (Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Republic and Yemen) voted for a ban by all Arab countries on doing business with all three companies. The action against Coca-Cola came in retaliation for the granting of an Israeli bottling franchise to Manhattan Banker Abraham Feinberg, who is also president of the Israel Development Corp., which promotes Bonds for Israel. RCA angered the Arabs by allowing phonograph records to be pressed in Israel. The move...
...actually put into effect by the 13 countries (the Boycott Office has no enforcement powers of its own), the repercussions could be widespread. Coca-Cola, the most popular soft drink among teetotaling Arabs, has 29 bottling plants, 139,000 dealers and a $50 million investment in the Arab world. Egypt immediately prepared to shift nine bottling plants from Coke to something called "Nasr (for victory) Cola." When Iraqui-born Mohammed Mahdi, head of the Manhattan-based American-Arab Action Committee, got word of the boycott in Beirut, he ceremoniously emptied his Coke into a carton...
...television and record sales in Arab countries, and its NBC subsidiary runs Saudi Arabia's state-owned TV network. Ford, with a thin sales lead over Chevrolet in the area, has a $60 million stake in assembly plants at Casablanca and Alexandria, and facilities to sell and service the 60,000 Ford cars and trucks already on Arab roads and desert tracks. Its Philco subsidiary, also blacklisted, is a major supplier of television sets, refrigerators and air conditioners to Arab countries...