Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some time before the arms deal has the desired effect, Nasser felt strong enough to shout his plans to maintain "the blockade and boycott of Israel," and his right to "control the shipping in the Gulf of Aqaba." Nasser added cautiously: "No Arab says now that we must destroy Israel. The Arabs are asking only that refugees from Palestine receive their natural right to life and their lost property...
Israel felt otherwise. In the U.N., Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban assailed the Communists for providing arms "to governments whose primary international objective is to destroy a neighboring state with which they refuse to establish peace," and his government asked the U.S. to restore the "balance of power" by selling arms to Israel. Cried Eban: "Can Israel wait like a rabbit for the snake to get big enough to devour...
...Saigon there was little doubt about the outcome of the referendum. Ex-Emperor Bao Dai lives near Cannes on the French Riviera with his family and various European mistresses. From there, often with French concurrence, he has done everything he could do to subvert and destroy the struggling government of Premier Diem. In April, when the Binh Xuyen bandit army tried to grab Saigon, Bao Dai tried to fire Diem. Instead, Diem fought the Binh Xuyen back to the marshes of the Mekong River. Last summer Bao Dai directed an anti-Diem offensive by troops of the Hoa Hao sect...
What Every Swot Should Know. Then again, in a more realistic vein he ofers the molesworth bogus report card ("Destroy reel report when it comes along") and the invaluable molesworth self-adjusting thank-you letter...
...between the United States and some of its allies; and it would satisfy at least one of the demands of the Communist world. But it simultaneously would enmesh the United States in commitments to a government hostile to the free world and party to the conspiracy which seeks to destroy it. In total effect it would reduce rather than enlarge the area wherein American policy-makers are free to make choices...