Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Restive Army. The Middle East is now caught up in what can best be described as a demonstrative war, waged more for political and diplomatic effect than for any hope of military gain. To Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, this arrangement carries the advantage of showing him in action against Israel-a necessity if he is to remain leader of the Arab world. It also boosts morale at home, appeases his restive army and captures some of the glamour hitherto accorded solely to the Palestinian guerrillas. Most important of all, the shelling continually reminds the diplomats...
...settlement in the Middle East depends as much on the Palestinian fedayeen commandos as on the Arab countries and Israel. Operating virtually as a separate state within the Arab lands, the fedayeen are powerful and popular enough to threaten any Arab leader inclined toward peace with Israel with the specter of popular revolt. Last week the point was driven home to Arabs everywhere by a violent show of Palestinian power that brought about the fall of the government of tiny Lebanon...
...neither the belligerence nor the armory of the fedayeen. One reason is that they have another source of guns, mines and ammunition from an increasingly important friend: China. Peking is taking full advantage of the opportunity to make trouble simultaneously for both the U.S. and Russia in the Middle East...
Since he first came East in 1960, a Californian named Walter de Maria has established himself as a kind of high priest of Manhattan's artistic under ground. His ideas are outrageous, as he apparently intends them to be. De Maria aims not to please but to force the viewer into studying his work and puzzling out its meanings. If the effort is infuriating more often than not, that makes no difference in De Maria's view...
...roses in 1963. Not that the 1969 crop of three-year-olds is unimpressive. It is just that the Derby promises to be a runaway race between two strapping chestnut colts-one an undefeated sprinter from the West, the other an erratic stretch runner out of the East...