Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the war the Arab view of the Israeli was that of a bogeyman, savage and inhuman. Radio and press promoted this view and few Arabs ever had a chance to test...
...such a trip, many of the Israeli stereotypes of Arab laziness or incompetence are invalidated. It is true that the Arabs of the West Bank reap only half as many tons of wheat per dunam as the Jews in Israel, for instance, and that their yield in grapes or tomatoes is only one-third of the Israeli produce. But this is because much Arab labor is unskilled and there is a scarcity of capital investment in the predominantly agricultural economy of the West Bank. If one keeps that in mind one must conclude that the Arabs are doing well...
...weeks ago he purged his Cabinet of many of its political figures, choosing as replacements technocrats from the universities and the professions. Last week, speaking on television and radio from his office in the presidential palace of Kubbeh, Nasser presented a comprehensive plan aimed at entirely revitalizing his Arab Socialist Union, the country's only legal political party, and giving Egypt a new constitution...
Under Nasser's plan, a set of nationwide elections will be held to name new delegates to the Arab Socialist Union, which will convene July 23. One of the delegates' main tasks will be to draft a constitution that will guarantee many of the rights that the students have demanded. Nasser promised that it would ensure, for example, complete freedom for Egypt's muzzled press, freedom of thought and an independent judiciary. There was only one catch. The constitution, Nasser declared, will not go into effect until the Arabs regain the lands lost to Israel...
When George Romney resigned from the presidential race, Newman was hailed in to anchor a special report. He handled the same sort of job for twelve days during last year's Arab-Israeli crisis. When Lucy Jarvis produces a big documentary-Khrushchev, Picasso, Christiaan Barnard-she taps Newman for his narrative authority and scriptwriting dexterity. About twice a month, Meet the Press summons Newman to play moderator. Speaking Freely, Newman's urbane interview series with the likes of Harold Macmillan, Rudolf Bing and Physicist Hans Bethe, is so bright, lively and informative that 50 Public TV stations across...