Word: hayat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop this arms rivalry some pundits and politicians (among them Walter Lippmann, British Laborite Hugh Gaitskell) argued that the West must negotiate with the Russians. This idea too worried some Arabs. Beirut's anti-Communist Al-Hayat complained that Big Four negotiations would be "going over our heads." But it also acknowledged: "Our entry by our own mistakes into the East-West struggle has made us lose the initiative." Added Beirut's French-language L'Orient: "This game can lead to nothing but a general conflagration or to a bargain between East and West. In the first...
...pains and sorrows, in the name of its rights to a free and honest life, I proclaim the birth of an organization which will cement our unity." With that, 22 old political parties died and Egypt became, in effect, a single-party dictatorship guided by Naguib's new Hayat el Tahrir, the Liberation Movement...