Word: mideastern
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...Timed Rift. For a time, with typical Mideastern ambiguity, the Baathists had tried to avoid openly attacking Nasser. After crushing the July 18 uprising of pro-Nasser army officers. Syria cautiously avoided publicly blaming Nasser. Even while executing 27 Nasserite rebels, the Syrian leaders still said they wanted to forget the past and intended to keep on working for union. But last week, faced with Nasser's blast, they finally insisted on their innocence and Nasser's guilt in killing hopes of Arab unity...
...Mideastern observers could not understand why Nasserites would begin a revolt on the very day that Syria's President Louai Atassi was flying to Cairo to make concessions to Nasser...
...Middle East. Even its exodus from Palestine after the establishment of Israel did not slow CAT down. By insisting on high standards and by patiently training local labor, Bustani proved that Arabs could do as good a construction job as anyone else. During the great postwar rush to expand Mideastern oil output, CAT began taking contracts away from Western companies, eventually became the largest pipeline layer outside...
...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 war records" -ideally, former members of Rommel's Afrika Korps...
...Soviet success in Iraq demonstrates, the Communists often benefit even more than the Germans from Mideastern hatred for the "imperialist powers." Communist states are also prepared to underwrite prestigious but unprofitable deals. In Cairo last summer, when a West German firm desperately sought to win an electrical construction contract away from the East Germans, the East German representative impatiently burst out: "Gentlemen, let's stop this nonsense. I have orders from my home office to undercut any Western price-even if I have to go to practically zero...