Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perilous, seemingly impossible ' assignment of exploring the secret world of the Arab commandos for this week's cover story fell principally to Beirut Bureau Chief Edward Hughes. Meanwhile Jerusalem Stringer Marlin Levin and Rome Correspondent John Shaw pursued essential details on the Israeli side...
FAITHFUL and unfailing as the muezzin's call from the minaret, that heady cry goes out nightly from a radio station in Cairo to the Arab lands. It is the "Voice of El Fatah," speaking for the Arab commando organization whose bands of raiders cross each night into hated Israel, bent on bringing death, destruction and terror. To Arabs huddled in wind-chilling refugee tents outside...
...MIDDLE EAST. If Viet Nam is Nixon's most urgent problem, the Arab-Israeli face-down may well prove his most perilous concern. Once the Soviets decided to reinforce their Mediterranean fleet and serve as chief armorers and advisers to the Arabs, they raised the possibility of direct conflict between the superpowers in that volatile area. During the campaign Nixon urged that the U.S. help keep Israel militarily strong enough to ensure its survival-a recommendation that has, naturally, annoyed the Arabs. To reopen communications with both sides and seek out possible paths to reconciliation, Nixon has assigned Pennsylvania...
...worst Arab terrorist bombing since three truckloads of explosives demolished Ben Yehuda Street in 1948, and the latest in a series of thrusts by Arab fedayeen commandos. Last August, ten people were wounded in Jerusalem during an attack still referred to as the "night of the grenades." In September, one Israeli was killed and ten injured by a bomb in Tel Aviv's bus station. On those occasions, angered Israelis rioted in nearby Arab sections. This time, however, police threw up roadblocks and slapped a curfew on Jerusalem's Arab section, once again dividing the Old City...
...fedayeen nonetheless succeeded in their purpose of inciting the Israelis and further lessening hopes of peace in the area. Prime Minister Levi Eshkol declared that "the full responsibility for this horrendous incident falls on the head of the Arab states." In the Middle East's familiar dialectic of attack and reprisal, that verdict seemed to leave in doubt only the time and place of Israel's retaliation...