Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's Arkady Sobolev predictably declared that the only peril in Lebanon comes "from certain Western powers which are openly preparing armed inter vention there." But when the matter came to a vote, the Soviet Union, instead of imposing an expected veto, merely abstained as the Security Council voted 10 to 0 to investigate the charges that the U.A.R. was pouring men, guns and munitions into tiny Lebanon. Reportedly, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser had asked Russia to withhold its veto: he himself was not yet ready to involve his restless Syrian satellite in reckless adventures...
...advance in private to the Greek and Turkish governments, but even though the men in the street did not know what Britain proposed, Cyprus was plunged into a savage round of riots. In the past, the British have generally found themselves ranged against the Greek Cypriots crying enosis -union with Greece. This time it was the Turks who started the trouble, and the British were trapped in the middle. Turkish Cypriot fought Greek Cypriot and came close to communal...
...even so vital and pertinacious a people could have built this country without the two unique institutions that guided them: the army and the big trade union organization known as Histadrut. Israel's tight little army creates the indispensable security, but it also is the nation's most forceful educator. It takes immigrant boys for 30 months' compulsory duty, and girls for 24. Jewish youngsters from Yemen and Iran have learned from top sergeants not only how to launch a rocket but how to use a toilet, sleep in a bed and eat from a table...
...Sabras. Histadrut is a trade union whose membership (plus families) includes more than half of all Israelis. But it is much more. Together with the government, it owns and operates at least 60% of the nation's business. It invests in iron foundries, textile mills and shipyards, factories from Dan to Beersheba. When the army's victories made Israel safe beyond these scriptural bounds, Histadrut reopened King Solomon's (copper) mines and built a luxury hotel to attract tourists to Elath. Denounced as monopolistic (its grandiose Tel Aviv headquarters is known as the Kremlin), Histadrut has lately...
...manufacturers, big and small, poured in, chiefly to make products-pens, radios, brassieres, baby shoes-that needed a good deal of hand work and could be transported cheaply. Hastening to the island came Paper-Mate, General Electric, Maidenform, B.V.D., Consolidated Cigar, Weston, Union Carbide, Parke, Davis & Co., Remington Rand, Bostitch and others (see map). Last week the 667th factory-a cutlery plant in Gurabo -went into production. For the catalytic $40 million in loans, plant construction and promotion, Fomento got the island $275 million in investment, 80,000 new jobs. Like the moving needles on the instrument board...