Word: arabization
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...government and its free-spending princes instead of talking tough, as did some British oilmen in the Middle East. Aramco's view seems to be that it didn't create the Saud dynasty but must live with it, that its policy has prevented the expropriation that some Arab nationalists demand, and that whenever it could, it has tried to bring Saudi Arabia out of the 12th century...
...ordering. The result might not be maximum efficiency or economy, but it kept Aramco on the right side of the royal family. Saudi Arabia's small but growing middle class owes its existence to Aramco, which pays its workers good wages (up to $570 a month for Arab executives) and has financed many of them in setting up their own businesses, from lens grinding to food importing, tasks that Aramco once had to do for itself. En couraging Arabs to save and study, the all-pervading company matches dollar for dollar the savings of employees, has 114 instructors teaching...
...stayed neutral. This time Israel had followed U.S. advice and appealed for Security Council action-hence the U.S. policy switch to support Israel. At week's end the U.S. and Great Britain introduced a joint resolution that condemned "the wanton murder" and called "the attention of the Syrian Arab Republic" to the assembled evidence...
...highly skeptical report was made by the Foreign Affairs Committee. Why, asked the committee, should the U.S. taxpayer be required to help an anti-American, Communist-leaning country like Indonesia? The report questioned the wisdom of continuing open-handed aid to the politically unstable Near East-Israel and its Arab enemies. It recommended that Congress consider the "withholding of economic assistance from those countries which persist in policies of belligerence and in preparations for their execution." It suggested drastic reductions in aid to both India and Pakistan until they settle their longstanding disputes...
...Jerusalem, the Most Rev. Angus Campbell Maclnnes, governs a 3,500,000-sq.-mi. archdiocese of 150,000 Christian Jordanese, Lebanese, Turks, Iranians, Egyptians, Sudanese and Greeks, and operates one of two seminaries which expressly seek to serve all branches of the communion-St. George's College in Arab Jerusalem. Maclnnes' church is in communion with one branch of Christianity involved in an unedifying project: the zenophobic Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church, which plans to drop 50 psalms from its revised Prayer Book because they mention Israel...