Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successfully tapped and marketed, France will no longer have to lay out some $300 million a year in hard-won foreign exchange to pay for the oil needed to keep French industry and transport running. More important yet, France will no longer be so dependent on the whims of Arab rulers in the Middle East...
...Ireland (Chief Rabbi: 1925-36), where he acquired a slight brogue and a love of things Irish, was elected (1936) Palestine's Chief Rabbi from which post he worked for the creation of Israel and sustained the morale of his people during the dark days of the Arab war, wrote a five-volume study: The Main Institutions of Jewish Law; in Jerusalem...
Most surprising of all is Libya's care fu.lly independent course in Arab politics. Nasser's picture smiles from thousands of shopwindows, Libyans listen nightly to Cairo radio, and-as in much of the Middle East-many of Libya's schoolteachers are Egyptian. But Libya refused to take sides with Nasser against Iraq. To all demands for its fealty, Moslem and non-Moslem alike, Libya replies in the proud words of Al Raid: "We do not need imported principles...
Saudi Arabia. The relaxed pressure of Arab nationalism has saved the day for the wealthy autocratic Saud family. Brother Feisal, now in charge, is introducing tightfisted budgeting at long last, while financially strapped King Saud has just left for Germany to look at some of his greenbacks sequestered there and to see a doctor...
Using the Bible as a guidebook, Glueck traced the wanderings of the Children of Israel in their exodus from Egypt, searched for relics of the Edomites, Naba-taeans and other long-vanished peoples. The jaunts were no picnics; the temperature touched 113°, and Arab guerrillas infested the wild country. "It's a little less dangerous than it used to be," says Rabbi Glueck. "In former years we traveled with machine guns and grenades. Now we have only rifles...