Word: arabization
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...General Assembly this week continues debating Russia's refusal to pay its share of peace-keeping costs, one of the policing operations at issue marks a memorable anniversary. Fifteen years ago, the U.N. arranged its first cease-fire in the Arab-Jewish Pales tine War. Today the U.N. is still there...
...group of people who professed to be Gamal Abdel Nasser's pals in the Arab unity movement, the Iraqis and Syrians were acting mighty strange last week...
...Baghdad, the ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party announced the unmasking of a "black plot to plunge Iraq into a sea of blood," proceeded to round up leading Nasser sympathizers. Among those arrested were three generals, five colonels, two ex-Cabinet ministers, and the organizer of the pro-Nasser Arab Socialist Union Party, Abdel Razzak Shabib. By week's end, 180 Iraqi Nasserites were behind bars and facing trial...
...remained constant for thousands of years. Many Kurds are tall, fair-skinned and blue-eyed. Of life they ask little more than flocks of broad-tailed sheep, a fine horse, a rifle with sufficient cartridge bandoleers, and a woman who can bear strong sons. For generations, the lowland Arab has been terrorized by the mountain Kurd. An Arab proverb says. "There are three plagues in the world: the rat. the locust and the Kurd." The Kurds reply. "A camel is not an animal, and an Arab is not a human being...
...delegation during his Republic Square speech and conferred lengthily with the Syrians until their quiet return to Damascus at midweek. He had clearly decided that the moment was not yet ripe for a showdown with Baath leaders in both Iraq and Syria, especially since the projected tri-state United Arab Republic is still not formed. But the fight was not over, and if the past was any guide, it would not be long before Radio Cairo was aiming curses at the Arabs who stand in the way of Gamal Abdel Nasser...