Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such African leaders as Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere claimed to have more pressing business at home. All the Arab chiefs stayed away because several of the black African countries had not supported their demand for an Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territory. But, surprisingly, more heads of state showed up than at last year's meeting in Addis Ababa, among them Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Ghana's Joseph Ankrah and Uganda's Milton Obote...
Cairo radio announced last week the death by suicide of Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, the onetime second in command to Gamal Abdel Nasser be fore he fell into disgrace over Egypt's defeat in the Arab-Israeli war. At the same time, the radio announced that Amer, 47, had already been buried in his home village of Astal, 150 miles south of Cairo. Whether Amer jumped or was pushed into eternity, the news of his "suicide" added new tension and suspicion in a country already seething dangerously with plots, resentments and repression...
...Egyptian masses themselves are growing restive. They realize all too well that Nasser is no longer infallible, either as a military strategist or as a national hero. Israel still occupies Sinai, and they want to know why. If it were not for the prospect of aid from oil-rich Arab neighbors, Egypt's economy would be bankrupt. All in all, times are tough for Gamal Abdel Nasser, who promised his country glory but gave it only gore...
Until the war, their cause and that of the other Palestinian Arabs scattered through the Middle East had been led by Ahmed Shukairy, the leftist, demagogic boss of the Palestine Liberation Organization. But Shukairy, who fled from the front even before the first shots were fired, was so thoroughly discredited that Palestinians no longer want anything to do with him, and the Arab states have cut off the P.L.O.'s $15 million yearly subsidy. Shukairy's fall created a vacuum of leadership, which is now being filled by West Bank Arabs who hope to get the best deal...
...pipeline, jointly owned by Texaco, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil (N.J.) and Mobil Oil, has been shut since the fighting erupted. Because some 20 miles of it runs through former Syrian territory, now occupied by Israel, the oil firms at week's end still hesitated to provoke Arab sensitivities by restarting the pumps...