Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab and Israeli air forces fly planes of basically similar performance. Why, then, are the Israelis able to claim five Arab aircraft shot down for every loss of their own? (See THE WORLD...
...Kennedy. His leadership of such groups as the young, the black and the oppressed has earned my full endorsement far beyond that of any other major political figure. His opposition to the Viet Nam war and the ABM system, his concern about the Nigerian-Biafran struggle and the Arab-Israeli conflict, his remarkable record in the Senate and his service as Majority Whip have not been obliterated from my mind...
...against the town of Ku-neitra, key military headquarters in the occupied Golan Heights. Israel denied that either attack caused casualties. The real victim was the last mutually respected cease-fire line in the Middle East. Now, besides Egypt and Jordan, Is rael must deal with an active Arab enemy on a third front...
Increased Arab aggressiveness is ev ident along the Suez Canal, where Is rael last month called in its air force to silence Egyptian artillery. Last week Egypt took the initiative in the air. A flight of 30 fighter-bombers, escorted by MIG interceptors, attacked Israeli positions in occupied Sinai, killing one soldier and wounding six. The raid lasted only four minutes, giving Israeli jets no time to scramble to the challenge. Next day the Israeli air force plastered Egyptian positions along the canal for 45 minutes; for good measure, Israeli planes also raided Jordan...
Below the Sahara, Arab traders and slavers established footholds for Mohammedanism in East and West Africa. But Portuguese sailors of Prince Henry the Navigator also dutifully carried Catholic missionaries with them on their 15th century voyages along the coast of Africa; King Nzinga of the Congo became a Catholic a year before Columbus discovered America. The ebb and flow of colonial fortunes kept the coastal missions weak, but a start had been made. Finally, spurred on by both imperialism and the new humanitarianism of the 19th century, missionaries penetrated the interior...