Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). "Discovery Goes to Israel" for a tour of the port city of Haifa and a look into family life in Rama, an Arab village 30 miles to the north...
Traveling Salesman. That prospect is anathema to Saudi Arabia's monarch, King Feisal, the ruler of the largest and richest of the moderate Arab nations. Last week Feisal wound up a 28-day, five-nation tour in President Habib Bourguiba's Tunisia-his latest trip in ten months to promote his projected Islamic summit meeting in Mecca. While
...seething tangle of Middle Eastern intrigue, that is precisely what Nasser does consider it-and he is determined to frustrate Feisal's call to Mecca just as he torpedoed the fourth Arab summit meeting, which was to have been held this month, rather than sit at the same table with Feisal's "forces of reaction." Increasingly, the Arab states are being called to line up on one side or the other, Nasser's or Feisal's. Nasser is still the name to conjure with in the streets of the Middle East, but Feisal can offer hard...
...such a showdown, Nasser could count on Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Sallal's part of Yemen-all more or less socialist, Soviet-armed regimes. Feisal would have on his side Western-equipped Jordan, Bahrain, the tiny sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf, and perhaps Morocco, Tunisia and Kuwait. Non-Arab Iran, whose Shah despises Nasser, would probably aid Feisal enthusiastically. Anxious to remain neutral are Lebanon, Libya and the Sudan. But it may never come to a showdown. The meeting around a fire...
...Arab history: much coffee and lengthy but inconclusive talk. Should Feisal ever get his Islamic summit, it might prove just the cooling-off conclave the Middle East requires...