Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fleet, which for years had made the "Med" practically an American lake. Many of the Soviet ships came through the Dardanelles during the Six-Day War, and their arrival helped persuade the Israelis to accept a ceasefire. The Soviets have enhanced their new image as the protector of their Arab allies by keeping a few ships in Alexandria and Port Said so that Israeli bombers will not be tempted to blast away at the vast amount of war materiel that is flowing into those ports...
...Royal Navy pulls out in 1971. The big question in the Mediterranean is whether the Russians will move into the Algerian naval base at Mers-el-Kebir, which the French evacuated last month; it is only 315 miles east of Gibraltar. Russians have also used their influence with the Arabs to set up secret stockpiles of spare parts within trucking distance of Arab ports...
...lull, the Israelis struck back. Answering an artillery barrage against two border kibbutzim, Israeli guns opened up along a 60-mile front extending from Jericho to the Sea of Galilee. Massed in advance for the attack, howitzers, heavy mortars and tanks pounded Jordanian positions with merciless accuracy. The Arabs brought up reinforcements and pounded back, turning great patches of Israeli farm land into rolling seas of flame. Then the Israelis called out their air force. For nearly seven hours, squadrons of jet fighter-bombers dumped rockets, phosphorus bombs and napalm on the East Bank. They destroyed a guerrilla base, damaged...
...fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War now call for a retreat from a fight against Communism in Viet Nam. One of their reasons: it is a civil war. Some of the loudest dissenters from any U.S. military presence in Southeast Asia were the most militant interventionists when the Arab-Israeli war erupted last June. For them the U.S. responsibility was plain: it called for warships at Aqaba, for guns and planes as fast as Israel might need them...
After the worst flare-up of shooting across its placid waters since last October, the Suez Canal last week seemed more than ever a permanent casualty of the Arab-Israeli war. Even the brief hopes that 15 trapped freighters might finally be freed after eight months of captivity flickered rapidly away in a three-hour gun duel between Egyptian and Israeli forces. By the time the truce was restored by the U.N.'s blue-helmeted observers, the Egyptians had not only suspended their efforts to release the rusting ships but declared that they would do nothing...