Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear: "Boy, they're well integrated." In his playful moods, Belafonte is also fond of fabricating stories about himself and his family. For a time he informed strangers that his present wife was an American Indian and that he was a former resistance fighter with the Hagana in Israel...
...overall sales, West Germany's peaceful invasion force -some 500 German businessmen operate out of Cairo alone -has yet to catch up with Britain and the U.S. But in three lucrative markets-Iran, Syria and Greece-West Germany outsells any other nation. In Egypt and Israel the West Germans are now No. 2 in sales...
Germany's own past, clean and otherwise, is put to advantage. As reparations for Nazi atrocities against the Jews, West Germany has paid Israel $460 million, much of it in capital goods, thus committing Israeli industries to German machines, raw materials and spare parts. At the same time, many Arabs think of the Nazis as the first and most successful anti-Israelis. "I'm embarrassed sometimes," says a West German businessman, "when an Arab says 'Heil Hitler!' to me." A less sensitive colleague admits that he prefers his Mideastern salesmen to be men "with good...
...take positions on the two problems that currently most agitate Arabs everywhere: "Had I been able to do so, I would have joined the Algerian liberation army. Every week one or two Iraqi aircraft carry arms and ammunition to the Algerians, and we shall send them more." Of Israel: "Be sure that every foot of usurped territory will be restored by Iraq in cooperation with the Arab sister states...
...committee the name of the Ceylonese premier. Last week, while telling a press conference of his desire to see more career diplomats in senior positions, the President was pushing the nomination of the 35-year-old former owner of the solidly Republican New York Herald Tribune as Ambassador to Israel...