Word: region
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vexing and dangerous practical problems of the Middle East are also, especially for Britain and the U.S., problems of moral responsibility. The Arab-Israel quarrel, for instance, is directly traceable to reckless and selfish past U.S. and British deeds and omissions in that region. Responsibility for solutions must rest largely in an agreement between Britain and the U.S. on how to make Arabs and Israelis stop the fighting and begin the stabilization of the area. No doubt the forms of solution will require hard, technical, diplomatic work. But nothing will come of technical gimmicks in this or any other area...
Schneider noted that the fencers suffer from a geographical disadvantage being 220 miles from the chief fencing region, New York. Almost all the Crimson's rivals are closer to New York--one of the most distant being Yale...
...cars from dusk to dawn. Social life had come to a standstill as Europeans huddled at home afraid to gather in crowds. For more than a year, native raiders led by a 34-year-old ex-carpenter named Zighout have staged an average of two attacks daily in the region. Once last August, they swept through town killing some 80 Europeans and warning the rest over the radio to "take your choice: a valise or a coffin." French repression was brutal, immediate and indiscriminate, taking an estimated 4,000 Moslem lives in the neighborhood, but it was not effective...
Economists insist that, ideally, Israel could make its own way if it took its proper place in its own region, and that its manufactures can find their rightful markets in such undeveloped nearby lands as Ethiopia, Eritrea and in the Arab states themselves. But to find such trade in its own area would require a great change of heart among its hostile neighbors and a great change in its own attitude. Ben-Gurion's victory last week was an indication that Israel does not propose to make such a change itself. This was a victory over his own Cabinet...
...cold war, bringing jeopardy to the Middle East's valuable oil preserves and a Russian penetration into this strategic area, has forced a reconsideration of U.S. interests. Secretary Dulles now regards the region as the second most important for the U.S., after Western Europe; its loss, he recently said, would be "worse than the loss of China" to the Western cause. The sale of Communist arms to Egypt thus presented an active threat to U.S. interests in the area. It also provided Ben-Gurion with justification for his new militancy: "Israel stands in imminent danger of attack by Egypt...