Word: arabization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...freedom. In Algeria, Europeans crowded docks and airports, fleeing in terror from their homes and fathers' graves. In India and elsewhere 75,000 Tibetans waited in miserable exile for the time when their mountain homeland would be free of Communist oppression. In the Middle East, a million Palestinian Arabs vegetated for the 14th year in camps and villages, still pawns in the irreconcilable conflict between the Arab states and Israel. In East Berlin, the Wall dammed up the flow of refugees, but men still tunneled beneath it, or leaped over it, or sought to blow it down...
...Huffing and puffing, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan William Macomber led an embassy basketball team up and down a sandstorm-whipped court in Jordan's capital of Amman. The opponents: a championship Jordanian team made up of Arab refugees from Palestine, the Zerka Zupermen. Macomber's Bombers frittered away an early lead, lost to the Zupermen 20-14. After the game, Ambassador Macomber, 41, in sneakers, shorts and a sweat-stained red jersey, received the victors at an embassy reception, where he served jelly buns, chocolate cake and soda...
...most of the past decade, Gamal Abdel Nasser's one-man rule of Egypt has rested on a two-word slogan: "Arab socialism." Brandishing this vague concept, Nasser has expropriated private property, conducted political purges, ranted against other Arab states, and modestly improved the lot of impoverished fellahin (peasants). Last week Nasser spelled out in greater detail just what "Arab socialism" is supposed to mean...
...International Monetary Fund recently allotted Egypt $42.5 million in hard currency for development projects; Cairo is currently seeking $450 million more from the U.S. for new aid schemes (total U.S. aid committed since 1952: $660 million). But even such an outpouring of money and technical help may not make "Arab socialism" viable. Population is rising at the rate of more than 500,000 a year, and already it is doubtful whether the huge, Soviet-financed Aswan High Dam irrigation and power project will be enough to meet the country's needs by the time...
...longer content with mere equality with the Arabs, he now insists on an autonomous Kurdish state within Iraq, running along the mountaintops from southern Turkey to the Persian Gulf; for this state he demands minority rights similar to those enjoyed "by minorities in such liberated countries as Switzerland, Yugoslavia, India and Czechoslovakia." The Russians are delighted to back Barzani's plan, which would give them access to the Middle Eastern Arab states and bring them closer to the Mediterranean...