Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Palestinian guerrillas who are sworn to destroy Israel seem to stand a far better chance of destroying some of the Arab countries that serve as their springboards of operation. Lebanon and Jordan, in particular, know that raids mounted from within their borders will bring harsh Israeli retaliation, but have proved too weak to crack down on their often uninvited guests. Last week an attempt by Lebanon's army to curb the fedayeen ("men of sacrifice") brought the country face-to-face with the specter of civil war. The fighting reportedly left 40 guerrillas and 25 soldiers dead, spurred violence...
...army and the civil service. From time to time, the system has come close to collapse. Until last week, its severest test occurred in 1958, when strife between the sects led President Eisenhower to dispatch the U.S. Sixth Fleet and 14,500 Marines to prevent an Arab takeover...
...events produced internal and external crises for Lebanon. Karami resigned as caretaker Premier. Arab leaders called a general strike, and some of the 160,000 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon fought pitched battles with police in Beirut. In Tripoli, Lebanon's second city, street battles killed seven and injured scores. Helou was forced to declare a nationwide curfew to prevent further disorders...
...Aviv's Lewin-Epstein Co. When he was recalled to his other job as an armored-brigade commander two weeks before the 1967 war, he organized a team of photographers and journalists and readied them to cover the battlefronts. Six weeks after he led Israeli tanks into the Arab part of Jerusalem, he brought out Victory, the first book on the war. It sold 150,000 copies in Israel alone, and has since been translated into English, French, German and Spanish. Ben-Ari has gone on to publish a score of titles in the U.S., where his Sabra Books...
...teen-age Christine modeled a bikini for a male photographer who happened to wear women's shoes. Her further progress: a "black sweeper" deflowers her at 15 or 16, an American soldier gets her pregnant, a landlord spills his "vodka breath" all over her face, a wealthy Arab introduces her to Osteopath Stephen Ward, he introduces her to high society. In the second installment, she recalls a night with Soviet Spy Eugene Ivanov: "Then I threw all reserve to the winds. He was my perfect specimen of a man, a huggy-bear of a man, and he wanted...