Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threat to counterthreat. The U.S. moved marines into Lebanon with no certainty that the marines could halt in Lebanon without being drawn into shooting, or whether it might be preferable to the Western world to buttress a counterattack on Iraq. At that moment the answer to a single key question was still hidden behind Iraq's censorship and sealed borders. Was there anything to save in Iraq? At midweek came the answer: no. That was the turning point...
After the last week's Middle East convulsion, the question was not whether Nasser is lost to the West (he was never the West's to lose), but whether he has forfeited the independence of the Arab unity movement-for Arab nationhood has no more desire to be Russia's slave than dependent on the West...
...week when the rest of the Middle East was concerned with the question "What is an Arab?", Premier David Ben-Gurion's government faced a worrisome vote of confidence on the question "What is a Jew?" For thousands of years Jews have generally interpreted the Talmud to mean that only the offspring of a Jewish mother can be a Jew, and the orthodox consider the matter settled. But for the last four months the question "What is a Jew?" has been hotly debated in Israel...
...question of East, West or neutrality, Latin Americans in every capital except Lima voted overwhelmingly and ominously in favor of the enticing neutral position...
Carrying this theme further, the opinion takers asked a true-or-false question: Is the U.S. trying to dominate Latin America economically for its own benefit? The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima. 62% in Mexico City, 61% in Bogota, 51% in Montevideo, 71% in Buenos Aires. But apparently some of those who answered true were not overly outraged at the notion of U.S. economic domination. More than 58% of the people polled (as high as 81% in Bogota) said they felt that the U.S. was still a good neighbor...