Word: arabization
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...Dilemma. The Pan-African conference pointed up Nasser's curious dilemma today. Only 43, still the idol of Arab masses wherever he goes, he is a man with his ambitions unsated, a fading hero in search of a solid triumph. At home, his record is at best mixed. The Aswan Dam is under construction; Egypt's staple product, cotton, was bought up on world markets in record quantities last year. Russia has provided $170 million for industrial development, as well as $377 million for the dam (v. the U.S.'s $120 million). The Suez Canal is doing...
...France has had since Napoleon, is wasting its time playing children's nursemaid in Algeria, when its place is on the Rhine and in the laboratory." And so long as Algeria remains unsettled, France cannot play the grand role De Gaulle envisions for it in international politics. The Arab world remains hostile, and the danger that the Red Chinese and the Russians may replace France as the chief force in North Africa haunts Paris...
...heaviest jets. It has been used by the U.S.A.F. mainly as a refueling and repair base. Under the agreement with the King, no U.S. combat aircraft could be stationed at Dhahran, and many other circumscriptions placed upon use of the base made its value questionable. Particularly nettling was Saudi Arab insistence that the Air Force must not station any Jewish airmen at Dhahran...
...refuge for them after a mission, since it is a mere 850 air miles from the Soviet border. But a powerful clique of Saudi royal princes has been ceaselessly nagging the King to toss the U.S.A.F. out of Dhahran. The princes were eager to appease Nasser and other Arab nationalists who had used the King's sufferance of a U.S. base on Arab soil as an excuse for attacks on the Saudi royal family...
...continued "close and friendly relations" with Saudi Arabia, and promised that, before leaving, the U.S. would finish the air terminal it has been building for the Arabians at a cost so far of $5,000,000. In fact, the U.S. is rapidly running out of airbases in the Arab world. After the three Strategic Air Command bomber bases in Morocco close, as agreed, in 1963, the U.S.'s only remaining base in the Arab world will be the $100 million installation at Wheelus Field, Libya...