Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also circumspect. Cairo's press, noisy as ever, swore eternal loyalty to Syria, even threatened that Egypt would close the Suez Canal if Syria were attacked. But Nasser himself, absorbed in his efforts to negotiate an economic settlement with France, and to retrieve the $40 million in Egyptian funds now blocked by the U.S., seemed to be scrupulously avoiding his old pastime of fishing in troubled waters...
...forswear the use of force in the Mideast, the notes actually added up to a device to win an Arab audience for the charges that France was planning "a military alliance with Israel," that Britain had committed aggression in Oman and Yemen, that the U.S. was plotting against the Egyptian and Syrian governments. Like the two Soviet naval squadrons which last week moved through the Mediterranean showing the Red flag in Albania and Yugoslavia, the notes served incidentally to assure Arab opportunists that the U.S.S.R. had moved into the Middle East to stay...
...Arab nations into common concern. One group of worried Arab powers centered around Egypt. Syria as a Russian satellite would rob Nasser of his chosen role as the leader of Arab nationalism, and play hob with all the talk of a Syria-Egypt merger and with the joint Syrian-Egyptian army command under Egypt's General Amer...
...peoples, but of its 3,900,000 inhabitants 86% are Moslem. Besides orthodox Moslems, there are Jews, five major varieties of Christian, a sprinkling of devil worshipers and 117,000 Druses, hard-bitten mountaineers who hate Christians, are free to ignore Moslem fasts and believe that an 11th century Egyptian caliph was the last incarnation...
Some time in the 20th century B.C., Sinuhe, an Egyptian who had fled there to escape Pharaoh's wrath, wrote of Syria: "Plentiful was its honey, abundant its oil and all fruit are on its trees." But Syria's early inhabitants-predominantly Semites-got little chance to enjoy the oil and honey. Around 2000 B.C. they were conquered by Hammurabi, the great lawgiver of Babylon; later their homeland was a perennial battleground for the Hittites and the Egyptians. Then Sennacherib the Assyrian "came down like the wolf on the fold," to be followed over the centuries by Nebuchadnezzar...