Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WORLD WAR I (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Lawrence of Arabia and the national Arab movement...
Aryan, Not Arab...
...Arabs' second main goal was intended to force reduction of West German aid to Israel. The Arab Pre miers warned Bonn that they just might retaliate by recognizing East Germany. This heavy-handed blackmail was rejected by Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier, who replied: "It goes too far when some other state, against which we have nothing, tries to stop us from giving aid to Israel...
Past experience has shown that joint Arab threats are seldom followed by joint Arab action. The diversion of the Jordan waters, even if construction is ever started, will take some six years to complete. And the blackmail against Bonn may well backfire, since the West German aid of $242 million to the 13 Arab states would be cut off with the breaking of diplomatic relations. That is a sum the Arabs could scarcely hope to obtain from East Germany...
Prohibition came to Kuwait as deviously as an Arab horse trade. In theory only Christian residents of the predominantly Moslem nation could drink, using ration cards to obtain whisky through London's Gray Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., which has had an import monopoly on Kuwait's liquor flow for decades. In fact, Moslems imbibed increasingly, and drunken-driving fatalities mounted apace. The nation's stricter religious leaders then teamed up with local merchants who resented Gray Mackenzie's lucrative monopoly to introduce a prohibition bill in the Kuwaiti Assembly. With voting a matter of public record...