Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kipling country, Indians and Pakistanis last week slammed away at one another with polyglot curses and American weapons. In South Viet Nam, sticks of paratroopers fell and bloomed from big-bellied U.S. Hercules transports in the grandest airdrop of the war. In Yemen sun-blackened Arab guerrillas warily avoided Egyptian troops; in the Sudan, rebellious blacks kept up a tenacious hit-and-run pressure on Khartoum's troops. Befeathered Simbas in the Congo set ambushes for Colonel Mike Hoare's mercenary force. Turks and Greeks on Cyprus, Indonesians and Malays in the Malacca Straits, Portuguese and Angolans...
Thirteen heads of state were invited to last week's Arab League Meeting in Casablanca, but only twelve showed up. The absentee was Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, who sent his regrets in the form of a 10,000-word memo randum intended to torpedo, if not the whole affair, at least its main personality, Egypt's Abdel Gamal Nasser...
Bourguiba has made no secret of his unhappiness with Nasser's efforts at singlehanded domination not only of the League but of most other Arab matters as well. But never before had he been so brutally frank; when shocked delegates gathered at the Prefecture on Casablanca's United Nations Plaza read the memorandum, they refused to publish it. That didn't stop Bourguiba. He happily handed it out to the press back home in Tunis...
What still bothered Bourguiba was Nasser's high-handed use of the Arab League to support his decision last spring to break diplomatic relations with West Germany. Under Nasser's leadership, Bourguiba acidly continued, "the Arabs have never been more divided; never have they slaughtered each other more ferociously than since the day Egypt took it upon itself to unite them." Warming up, he added, "There is not in the Arab world one single regime that Cairo has not attempted to overthrow whenever [that regime] showed signs of insubordination or refused to remain in the Egyptian orbit...
...three demobbed British soldiers sit drinking in a handsome Arab cabaret in Palestine. Exposition is almost unnecessary for such an archetypal trio: Leo, the young leader (John Richardson); Major Holly, the older officer (Peter Gushing) who used to be a college professor; and Job, their comic but loyal batman (Bernard Cribbins) in a gentleman's gentleman's derby and a lower-class accent. In almost no time at all, Leo has been abducted by ruffians with gold medals bearing his profile and dragged before the blonde and beautiful Ursula Andress...