Word: arabization
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...next day denounced the U.S. in violent terms. In a mixture of Latin abrazo and the tradi tional French greeting, both men hugged and kissed each other. Linking the "kissing match" to Communism rather than to courtesy, the New York Mirror cried: "Ben Bella go home and kiss an Arab...
General Assembly, he had not a word to say about Cuba. In his notably restrained speech, he inevitably put Algeria in the ranks of the Afro-Asian neutralists, ex pressed the expected sympathy with "our brother Arab people in Palestine," and urged economic help to undeveloped countries, including Algeria...
...things could be more unsettling than the vision of Arabs and Israelis-or for that matter, Arabs and Arabs-rattling rockets at each other. But after a twelve-year limitation on major military aid to any Middle Eastern state, the U.S. broke the pattern by announcing that it would sell Israel a consignment of Hawk missiles. The professed reason: to offset Communist military aid to the Arab nations. Actually, the situation has not substantially changed since the 1960 pact between Nasser and the Soviet Union, which gave Egypt 60 Ilyushin jet bombers, several squadrons of new MIG-21 fighters...
...itself, the Hawk does not represent any great threat to the Arabs. A supersonic ground-to-air missile with a range of 26 miles, the Hawk can hunt down hostile bombers in the skies above Israel but has little offensive capability. But the sudden reversal of U.S. policy spurred the Arab press to frenzy. "Americans urinate on their own principles!" screamed Beirut's Al Anwar. The Egyptian Gazette, drawing a parallel between the Middle East and the Caribbean, cried that "Israel is a greater menace to Arab countries than Cuba will ever be to the U.S." Cairo...
...palace in the capital city of San'a. The Imam tried to shoot his way out but Sallal blasted the palace with artillery, and luckless Badr died in the ruins. At midnight, Radio San'a announced the fall of the monarchy and "the establishment of the Yemen Arab Republic...