Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middle East, where hates flare and die with the course of the sun, there is no letup in the feud between Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who leads the Arab world's revolutionary camp, and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who leads the conservative forces...
Nasser's brand of political Medicare would hardly help his image in the Arab world-or the prospects for peace in Yemen. Nasser wants to keep the feud going so that his expeditionary force in Yemen will be positioned for a possible move into strategic Aden when the British withdraw year after next...
Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba has long been the Arab world's loudest cham pion of women's rights. In 1956, when Tunisia won its independence, Bourguiba abolished polygamy, made it harder for men to get divorces, and gave women their first, real legal rights. He looked on approvingly as the Moslem veil began to vanish, and he has shown no objection to the new garb of girls who parade gracefully through the narrow streets of Tunis in brief, airy frocks. But one has to draw the line somewhere, and last week Bourguiba did-just below the knee...
Israel bagged another Arab MIG during the week-this one without firing a shot. After sending a note to the Israeli air force earlier this month, Iraqi air force Captain Mounir Rowfa, 30, flew his MIG-21 from Al Rashid Air Force Base near Baghdad to an undisclosed Israeli airbase, and gave the West its first closeup look at the Soviets' 1,200-m.p.h. fighter. Rowfa claimed that he had been planning his defection for months because of religious discrimination (he is a Catholic) and Iraq's war against the Kurds...
...Arab boy, the only one who never took advantage of him, Norman wrote the book's theme: "The romantic and the sinister are always intertwined in an attitude somewhere between a struggle and an embrace." By intertwining them, Lambert has achieved an authentic tragicomedy about an authentic 20th century Quixote...