Word: arabization
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...clay fragments, in papyrus records -the words were everywhere: "Gone." Battered by oppressive taxes and tormented by religious persecution, the Christian Copts (their name comes from an Arab corruption of the Greek word for Egyptian) slipped from the bulging cities of 5th century Egypt into the silent desert, well in advance of the convulsive social earthquakes that rent the New Age from antiquity...
Moral Lepers. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser put his finger on two culprits: 1) Michel Aflak, the fraii; intellectual Christian Arab who founded the Baath Socialist Party; and 2) Salah Bitar, Aflak's disciple and the present Baathist Premier of Syria. Denouncing the two as fascists, secessionists, traitors, moral lepers and "seekers after power," Nasser blasted them as solely responsible for the collapse of the unity agreement concluded last April between Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The agreement called for a merger of the three nations into a greater United Arab Republic, but in the months since...
...Even while executing 27 Nasserite rebels, the Syrian leaders still said they wanted to forget the past and intended to keep on working for union. But last week, faced with Nasser's blast, they finally insisted on their innocence and Nasser's guilt in killing hopes of Arab unity...
...impending conference of Baathist leaders from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and "certain other countries" that he refused to name. The announced purpose: to seek a "new political strategy basis for future activity in the Middle East." Not to be outdone, Nasser called for a giant rally of all Arab nationalist movements, to elect a supreme council...
...Cairo as a guest of the United Arab Republic on the eleventh anniversary of its founding revolution, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, 72, made a timely point for uneasy Egypt: "It should be remembered that we in the U.S. had been a colonial possession for 175 years. Our great problem after that was to establish stable government . . . Today our hearts are with those people who are having a like experience." Then, as if to show that the Chief Justice of a stable government can get off his high horse, he turned tourist, visited mosques and pyramids, even playfully...