Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's first moves was to ask Moscow to put pressure on Pyongyang for the release of both the ship and her 83-man crew. Shrewdly, he did not use "the hot line" that proved so useful during the Israeli-Arab war last June. The Russians, who have only recently weaned North Korea from Peking's camp and at least part way into their own, are reluctant to do anything that might disturb that delicate relationship. Moreover, Moscow has endured severe criticism from Asia's Communist parties for its lack of militancy in combatting the U.S. presence...
...Arab-Israeli Deadlock: "We have no aggressive designs against Israel. In the past we were initiators of its creation, and we still believe that Israel should exist as a state. Your policy on the seized territory is different. Had the U.S. joined the efforts of the Soviet Union, then doubtless Israel would have freed the seized lands in a couple of days. However, for reasons unknown to us, the U.S. does not agree to this, although we have repeatedly urged it to do so. The U.S., by giving every support to Israel, encourages it not to set the occupied territories...
...twelve men nodded quietly to friends and relatives, occasionally stopping to shake hands. Thus last week President Gamal Abdel Nasser opened his show trial of the first of 54 former government and military leaders charged with plotting his overthrow in the wake of last June's Arab-Israeli...
...predictably, is coping with "bureaucratic bog-down": he often negotiates personally with medical-supply stores to rent iron lungs, and last July he turned Sears, Roebuck & Co. into an Omar the Tentmaker to provide $1,800,000 worth of "Ted Williams Campers" for 100,000 Jordanians displaced by the Arab-Israeli war. Tripp is an avid outdoorsman and thus an aficionado of tent living by avocation...
...last November, when polls showed presidential popularity low and dropping, he concluded that there was unrest and a yearning for strong leadership but also an undercurrent of sympathy for the President. Smith Hempstone covered the Middle East war with lyrical intensity, highlighting particularly the plight of the Arab victims. Political Writer Paul Hope showed a keen eye for detail as he followed George Romney around New Hampshire and found some surprising pockets of support for the governor...