Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members fired eight shots at him during a mass rally in Alexandria in 1954, but despite the execution of six of the brothers and the imprisonment of thousands of others, the organization survived. Establishing headquarters in Geneva, it was soon distributing an anti-Nasser magazine throughout the Arab world, smuggling arms to its underground organization in Egypt, raising money from such sources as the governments of Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia...
...evasive and unsure in dealing with marriage, and it says nothing about birth control. The prospect is that it will get further revision. "We could use another year to work on it," says one Latin American bishop on the drafting committee. As for the declaration on non-Christian religions, Arab nations and Eastern Rite Catholic bishops in the Middle East are still putting strong pressure on the Vatican to excise a statement exonerating Jews from the charge of deicide. But the basic text of that document was overwhelmingly approved during the last days of the third session, and although Vatican...
...moves were afoot, though without benefit of Lyndon's left. At the U.N., Secretary-General U Thant was sounding out 14 nations-among them Red China and the Soviet Union-to determine whether another U.S. bombing pause would help pave the way to peace talks. In Moscow, United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that he too would help negotiate a cease-fire to halt "American aggression...
...evening of his arrival, Nasser was welcomed at a banquet and reception for 700 guests. Feisal and Nasser sat alone together at the head of the table and dined off gold-rimmed plates. Away from the banquet table things went equally well. In less than 48 hours the two Arab potentates reached full agreement, thus enabling Nasser to leave on schedule for his current visit to the Soviet Union. The announcement was made in the chandeliered main hall of the palace, where the marble floor is carpeted in green-the color of hope. Once the agreement was signed, tall, sinewy...
...Arab diplomats thought an agreement acceptable to both sides might include 1) withdrawal of Egyptian troops within six months, 2) a transitional government manned by a coalition of republicans and royalists, and 3) a promise of national elections. Nasser seemed ready to drop his long-insisted-upon title of the "Republic of Yemen" in favor of the "Islamic State of Yemen." But a major obstacle was Nasser's insistence that Imam Badr and his immediate family be banished in order to speed a reconciliation of the Yemeni factions. Yemen's royalists would hardly go along with that, though...