Word: beni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain extent this is true, for the Bedouins remain the backbone of Hussein's 56,000-man army. Yet increasing numbers of "Beds" are joining the "feds." Arabs estimate that up to 15% of the guerrillas are non-Palestinians. No fewer than 2,500 members of the Beni Sakhr, Jordan's most powerful Bedouin tribe, have joined Arafat's Al-Fatah or other guerrilla groups. Other non-Bedouin Jordanians have also joined the fedayeen. One of them, Nayef Hawatmeh, even heads his own radical guerrilla group, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...summer heat by hunkering down beside water holes; in winter, after provident rains had fallen, they drove their camel herds across 100-mile-wide tribal grazing grounds, venturing into town only to sell their animals. They observed stern codes for everything from vendettas to hospitality. Bigger tribes like the Beni Sakhr, when they suffered a bad winter, carried out a gazu or tribal raid, plundering weaker tribes of their camels, horses and food...
...degree of internal order, forbidding the gazu and destroying the tribes' stockpiles of arms. Civilization, in the shape of the road and the automobile, ended the demand for camels and forced the nomads to fold up their goat-hair tents and drift into towns and villages. Today the Beni Sakhr prosper by dealing in real estate and farming 100,000 acres of land planted in grains...
...never felt I got the point of Nasser's revolution until I dined with a wealthy, French-educated Egyptian who came from the area of Beni Murr, the Abdel Nasser family's home town. I asked the man if he knew the family and he answered. "Of course we knew them. But we never spoke to them. We would never speak to such people...
...many as 100 MIG-21j interceptors, along with 70 to 100 Soviet pilots plus crewmen. The planes, with a longer range, better radar and a more effective fire-control system than earlier MIG-21s flown bv Eevotians. are based at Cairo West, Beni Suef, Aswan, Mansura and Inshahs. Only once, so far as is known, have they and Israeli pilots encountered one another; in Aoril, over Lake Qurun southwest of Ca;ro, Israelis suddenly discovered that the MIGs they were about to jump were being flown by Russian-speaking pilots. Both sides backed away and have steered clear ever since...