Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century invaders, it was Bilad al-Sudan-Land of the Blacks. To the 4,000,000 blacks who live on its southern flood plains, the name is a mockery. Ruled by harsh Arab masters for most of the past 200 years, the Sudanese Negroes are little more than primitive prisoners in their own land. Political rights have been denied them, education withheld, and they have managed to preserve their dignity only by clinging to their past. The tall, naked Dinkas still worship animal spirits and fear the evil eye. The fierce Nuer herdsmen still subsist on milk, termites...
...north. From hideouts in the papyrus swamps and upland brush, guerrillas organized by still another group, a terrorist band known as the Anya Nya (Bad Medicine) began raids on government garrisons. Army reprisal from the north only increased the natives' hatred of the "slave catchers" and their "Arab occupation army." Offers of political integration were listened to politely by the southerners, only to be rejected at the conference table. "The problem is simple," observed one expert. "The southern Sudanese want to be Africans. The government wants them to be Arabs...
...formula was a compromise that would bring Royalists and Republicans into the government, and it won the immediate support of most Arab leaders. All went well, in fact, until Noman began filling in the specifics necessary for final settlement and ceasefire. When he let it be known that the 50,000 troops sent by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser would have to be replaced by a joint Royalist-Republican peace force, the Nasserites suddenly lost interest in converting Yemen into a Noman's land...
...power as civilian Premier. After Noman flew to Cairo to protest directly to Nasser, Sallal threw seven civilian Cabinet ministers into jail. Last week in Cairo, Noman resigned. "It is obvious that Sallal and his cronies are more interested in war than peace," he charged bitterly, and other Arab leaders sadly agreed. As if to prove the point, Sallal lost no time in naming a new Cabinet to replace Noman's. The new lineup: 13 military men, two civilians...
Stung by criticism that this policy amounted to little more than bribery to insure noninterference by Kuwait's powerful neighbors, the government has decided henceforth to make all grants through the $280 million Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, which will allocate money only for specific, economically sound projects in other Arab countries. For their part, wealthy Kuwait residents have invested $1.5 billion of their own outside the country, own $350 million in real estate in Beirut alone. The government has another $1.2 billion on deposit in foreign countries, but has done the pound no favor by cutting down...