Word: arabization
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...Since the Syrian coup was both swift and successful, Nasser's nerves and the Egyptian army were not put to the test. Israel alerted its border defenses but made no further move. On the surface, in fact, the Syrian affair was much milder and less bloody than most Arab revolts. In the past 15 years, the Middle East has been continually shaken like a kaleidoscope, constantly falling into new patterns. There have been two sizable wars and fully two dozen armed uprisings and rebellions. Premiers and princes have been torn limb from limb by street mobs; thousands of politicians...
...overwhelmingly favorable to Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Syrian revolution was the third in six months by rebels pledged to make common cause with Egypt. Flights of new leaders poured into Cairo for tear-stained embraces with Nasser and nightlong conferences on the future course of that misty concept called Arab unity. Nasser stands at the pinnacle of prestige, if not of power, and the shadow he casts has never been longer. Today, it falls over the entire Arab world from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean...
Total Adherence. The conferees were reported "in close agreement" on a planned union that indicated compromises were being made by both sides. If accepted by individual plebiscites, the union would create a single Arab state of 39 million people with an area as flat as Texas and more than twice its size, and an economy based on the oil of Iraq, the agriculture of Syria, and the industry and cotton of Egypt. The agreement calls for a single political head (almost certain to be Nasser) and a central parliament based on population, which would give Egypt a two-thirds majority...
...charmed guests in the Algerian delegation. Fact was Algeria's Premier Ahmed ben Bella hit the roof when he heard the news, for he reserved the honor of the first official visit of a chief of state to Algeria since its independence for a real advocate of "socialist Arab nationalism," Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. For all Morocco's warm cooperation during the struggle with France, the high-living young monarch's autocratic ideas are anathema to Ben Bella and his crusading idealists. "Hassan is the last person we want to see here at this time...
Died. Emile Bustani. 55, founder and chairman of Lebanon's $60 million Contracting & Trading Co. (CAT), the Middle East's biggest and most important industrialist, a friend of the West who was a firm advocate of inter-Arab economic development; in the crash of his private plane; in the Mediterranean near Beirut...