Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday, November 14 RAT PATROL (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Enemies become allies when Germans join with Rat Patrol Raiders to stave off an Arab attack...
...human actions. In Munich, as in Los Angeles, most residents are convinced that the foehn causes general lassitude, irrational behavior, suicides and an increase in crime. Israelis swear that headaches, asthma, high blood pressure, mental aberrations and other assorted ills are accentuated during the khamsin. In Sicily and some Arab nations, courts have considered the hot, dry winds as mitigating circumstances for those accused of crimes committed while they blow...
Communist Kitty. Predictably, the Communist reaction to the conference was swift and negative. Hanoi and Peking dismissed it as a "big fraud" and an "insipid farce." Moscow said it masked U.S. plans to escalate, not end the war. Meeting in New Delhi, Yugoslavia, the United Arab Republic and India urged an immediate end to U.S. bombing of the North and withdrawal of all foreign-meaning U.S.-troops. Asked if that applied to the North Vietnamese as well as the Americans, U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser smiled blandly. "The North Vietnamese," he purred, "say they do not have any forces...
Stocks in a Suitcase. Barring near-miracles, Intra's failure seems sure to cost its brash, engaging founder and chairman, Yusif Bedas, 53, control of his $1 billion empire. Born the second son of an Arab schoolteacher in Jerusalem, Bedas fled Palestine when it became Israel in 1948. Rounding up $4,000, the refugee began his Beirut career as a moneychanger in a dingy fourth-floor office, amassed enough capital in three years of flamboyant dealings to start Intra in 1951. To woo his share of the flood of investment money pouring into Lebanon from oil-rich Saudi princes...
...only because his Arab clients deserted him. For one thing, soaring interest rates have lately made Europe a more profitable haven for cash. Also, Intra became involved in the bitter feud between Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, leader of the Middle East's conservatives. When Nasser-financed newspapers in Lebanon attacked Feisal, Saudi and Kuwaiti sheiks yanked $30 million out of Intra in one month. On top of that, Lebanon's three-year-old central bank fumbled its chance to prevent the crisis. Asked to help Intra, the bank stalled...