Word: arabization
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...they dislike U.N. operations in the Congo and the Middle East, voted by the veto-proof General Assembly, the Communist bloc has refused to pay its share of the annual $140 million price of troubleshooting in those areas. For their own political reasons, France, Belgium and most of the Arab states will not ante up for one or the other of these assessments. The $200 million U.N. bond issue, backed with U.S. funds if Congress approves, will ease the pressure for a while, but the problem of the financial veto goes much deeper. Seven months ago, the General Assembly asked...
...favor of the decision were judges from Australia, Great Britain, Greece. Italy, Japan, Nationalist China, Panama. United Arab Republic and the U.S. Against: Argentina, France, Peru, Poland, Soviet Union...
...Arab Socialism. Despite administrative and economic bungling, Nasser has survived a series of cliff-hanging crises, from Suez in 1956 to last year's collapse of the United Arab Republic, when Syria violently withdrew from the coalition with Egypt. Nasser was so shaken by that event that he allowed his secret police to institute a virtual reign of terror. He pulled out of this scare about four months ago, just in time to avoid a serious political reaction against him. With the help of massive economic aid from the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund, he has made another...
...summoned a National Congress of intellectuals, workers and peasants to Cairo and presented them with a "National Charter," his first major political credo since he took over. Despite the fact that Nasser had confiscated $1.5 billion from Egypt's tiny, wealthy, luxury-bathed ruling class, he explained that "Arab Socialism" is not Communism: it favors religion, opposes the dictatorship of any class, and believes in private "but not exploitative" ownership. He called for the setting up of a one-party system based on a complex structure of villages, factories and urban districts. This ramshackle system, many Egyptians hope...
...Universal-International's A Gathering of Eagles, but the planes' crews must be "in training" at the time. And Columbia's Flight from Ashiya (about the Air Rescue Service) has been bowdlerized at Pentagon insistence. In the original script, a paramedic says to an uncomprehending Arab girl: "I bet you'd be great in the sack...