Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shah has worked hard to alleviate his country's poverty. While his Arab neighbors feuded, fussed and fought with each other, he was busy building, investing most of his oil earnings in development instead of armaments, plants instead of planes. He decreed a radical land reform, gave women equal rights and promoted education at every level. By creating a climate of stability, he has induced private foreign investors to pour $1.3 billion into Iran. Having visited 57 countries, he has used personal diplomacy to put Iran on good terms with most of the world. Although a Moslem...
Permanent peace in the Middle East seems more than ever a mirage in the desert of Arab-Israeli antipathies. Egyptian and Israeli artillery dueled across the Suez Canal last week with unsettling and dangerous regularity. The casualties of an uncertain truce are beginning to rise. Some 100 Egyptians were killed in last week's exchanges, along with half a dozen Israelis. In a growing war of Arab terrorism in Israeli-occupied territory, Israel lost its first lives since the war: a three-year-old child and two policemen...
...been far less gracious toward writers like Ladisla Mňaċko, author of the novel The Taste of Power. It took away Mňaċko's Czechoslovakian citizenship when he dared to go to Israel in protest against the government's pro-Arab policy in the recent Middle Eastern...
When Tunisian students passed a bristling condemnation of U.S. policy in Viet Nam last month, President Habib Bourguiba decided to give them a cooling little lecture himself. His message, rare in the Arab world for its espousal of U.S. views: "If the Vietnamese guerrillas could contain the American Army, China would not hesitate to unleash its masses on South Viet Nam, Asia and even Russia." Later, Bourguiba described his fellow Arabs' belligerence against Israel as "vain obstinacy" and Gamal Abdel Nasser's closing of the Gulf of Aqaba as "a monumental miscalculation." He has also shocked Moslems...
...restore the forests that legend says once covered ancient Carthage and promoting a new fishing industry that has already spawned four shipyards and 16 canneries. He has also encouraged tourism, which perked up four years ago when northern Europeans began discovering Tunisia's unspoiled beaches, its jasmine-scented Arab towns and the antiquities that date back to Hannibal's time...