Word: eban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, the men of the U.N.Security Council listened gravely as Egypt demanded satisfaction for the "brutal aggression" in Israel's attack on Gaza, in which 38 Egyptians were killed. Israel's Abba Eban retorted that his country was prepared to bind itself to "an assurance that if no hostile act is carried out by Egypt against Israel, then no hostile act of any kind will be carried out by Israel against Egypt...
Abdul Monem Rifa'l, Jordan ambassador to this country, thus cannot debate tonight with Abba Eban, the Israeli ambassador, as originally planned. Rifa'l has agreed, however, to present the official Arab point of view tonight at 8:30 in New Lecture Hall, with Eban defending his government's policies tomorrow at Rindge Tech...
...other two forums will be "How Should the U.N. Charter Be Revised?" with Ernest Gross and Norman Cousins, December 10; and a two-day discussion March 18 and 19 on Arab-Israel problems with Abba Eban, Israeli ambassador to the U.S., and Abdul Rashid, Lebanon delegate...
...last impassioned appeal to the U.N. Security Council, Israeli Delegate Abba Eban cried out that the verdict against his country was "more vehement and intemperate" than any the Council had ever rendered, even against the Communist aggressors in Korea. But he went down to defeat. Arab Spokesman Charles Malik of Lebanon hailed the censure as "the first gleam of hope in years that the Arabs are not going to be wronged again...
Able, chubby Envoy Abba Eban got on the phone to Albert Einstein in Princeton, N.J. Einstein, 73 years old, a naturalized U.S. citizen, listened, paused, and then gave his regretful no. The next day he wrote to Eban that he was deeply touched by the Israeli offer, but never undertook functions he could not fill to his satisfaction. He liked studying the physical world, he added, but, "I have neither the natural ability nor the experience to deal with human beings...