Word: fighting
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...originally Arabs, although they are now so considered. They come of Hamitic stock, a submissive people widely weakened by disease and the Nile climate, who have rarely in history won a war. The Saudis, among the purest Arabs, are also among the best fighters, but did not really fight Israel. Arabs fight bravely enough on their own soil-as the Algerians did against the French or the Jordanians in Palestine. Yet, despite all the anti-Israeli passion, few other Arabs are really eager to risk their lives for the Arabs in Palestine. The "Arab nation," which is so often talked...
...American planes helped Israel. Arabs believed it because it could have happened: Arab truth is meant to be only approximate or potential. There is no credibility gap among Arabs, so long as a statement, however fantastic, fits in with what they want to hear. "Everyone knows that Jews cannot fight," Arabs explain. "Therefore somebody else must have fought for them...
...civilians. They are also provided with free military defense counsel. Generally young, the attorneys "really get in there and chew," says Marine Lieut. Colonel Bill Wander, who has just returned from 13 months as the law officer* at every Marine or Navy general court-martial in Viet Nam. "They fight tooth and nail and don't give an inch. They come from all the best law schools...
Neither Heineman nor Provo could be called a typical railroad man. Heineman is a lawyer who got into the railroad business after a 1954 proxy fight, when he took control of the smallish Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway. A 27-year-old accountant named Provo was brought in to help straighten out the corporate mess. Heineman liked Provo, and soon after hired him away from Arthur Andersen & Co., the accounting firm, and gave him a vice-presidency. Two years later, Heineman moved to the C. & N.W. and took Provo along...
Though vital to the budget balance required by the West German constitution, tax increases and cuts in welfare spending would normally be no way to fight a recession. Nor were they easy for Kiesinger, for he has had to contend with a delicate balance in his coalition government. The Social Democratic members of his Cabinet, and some of his own Christian Democrats as well, bitterly opposed the tax increases and welfare cuts. But some thing had to be done about government spending. Over the years, when rapid economic growth promised to produce enough cash to meet almost any demand...