Word: moslem
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...hasten the fall of Nikita Khrushchev, Moscow has played for smaller stakes at great cost and scant return (see box). One investment it could not liquidate, however, was the Middle East. With the decline of Western influence and the rise of Arab nationalism in the 1950s, the volatile, petroliferous Moslem world became an irresistible and comparatively safe target for Russia's rulers. Their main goal, in the Middle East as elsewhere, was to displace U.S. influence. The ultimate cost of Russia's aid to the Arab world was between $3 billion and $4 billion...
...chaos, prevent it from supplying oil to the West, and drive the U.S. completely out of the area. There were also the nonaligned states, which regard Nasser as one of their prophets. There was India, which never loses a chance to woo Arab support for its Kashmir dispute with Moslem Pakistan. And there were some Black African nations whose leaders feel them selves bound to support Nasser in the cause of African unity. As speaker after speaker sounded off, the winner of the war in the Middle East found itself in the curious position of having to fight a defensive...
...Plavinsky's works in New York is in fact called The Voices of Silence. It is a semiabstract panel composed of fragments of Moslem designs, a hand print, a feather, a fish, cruciform mazes and futuristic line designs. Prayer is a pen-and-ink drawing of two hands pressed together, with passages lettered beneath in a Russian so archaic that it is said that even Slavonic scholars have been unable to decipher it. Coelacanth is a brightly colored portrait of the prehistoric fish, his wizened face gleaming like a phosphorescent fossil. Plavinsky, says Mrs. Stevens, is entirely unaware that...
Clearly, if such a meeting were to take place-let alone get anywhere-Kosygin would have to demonstrate a remarkable degree of flexibility and reasonableness in his advocacy of the Arab cause before the U.N. and millions of U.S. televiewers. Though his Moslem clients would hardly relish a restrained stance by Moscow, they should be well aware by now that the task of constructing a peaceful Middle East is as far beyond their own means as have been their military efforts over the past decade. A just settlement of the ancient feud between Arab and Jew will not be easy...
...prime enemies are the U.S. and Britain-along with Israel. Al Ahram, Nasser's favorite newspaper, charged that the CIA goaded Israel to attack, and that just before the war the Pentagon shipped Israel 450 warplanes, 400 tanks and 1,000 pilots and navigators. Throughout the Islamic world, Moslem mullahs proclaimed American and British products unholy. Libyan mobs destroyed liquor stores as symbols of Anglo-American "imperialism," and King Idris demanded that the U.S. abandon its Wheelus Air Force Base. Egypt and Syria closed their ports to U.S. and British ships; Sudanese and Iraqi dock workers refused to unload...