Word: arabization
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...Harvard Law School '29) served between 1941 and 1951 in a flock of key assignments, most of them involved with foreign aid, relief missions and economic affairs. After that he turned in an excellent performance for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, directing the aid program for Arab refugees. In 1959 he was President Eisenhower's choice for the ICA post, but Capitol Hill Republicans blocked the appointment because New Orleans-born Labouisse was a registered Connecticut Democrat. His second wife (the first died in 1945) is Eve Curie, author-daughter of the discoverers of radium...
...Chinese Nationalists are resigned to a new U.S. attitude toward their heavy troop buildup on the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, which Kennedy in a TV debate last October pronounced "not strategically defensible, not essential to the defense of Formosa." Middle East Arabs, annoyed that Kennedy put two Jews in his Cabinet and nary an Arab, angrily noted that Kennedy told a campaign audience that U.S. policy aims at ending the state of war between Israel and the Arab states. To Arabs, "ending the state of war" means acquiescing to the permanent existence of Israel, which is something that...
...Keita of Mali, started a day late from the leafy Guinean capital of Conakry. Ferhat Abbas, President of the "provisional" F.L.N. rebel government of Algeria, took off from Spain in a chartered plane, but had to turn back because of mechanical difficulties. Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic and the canniest professional of the lot, was en route by sea in his official yacht Al Hurriyah (Freedom). Nasser, who claims leadership of Africa because Egypt guards "the northern gate of the continent," suffered mortification when he arrived without the two Egyptian corvettes assigned to escort him. Reportedly...
...empire, and, when he did, was surrounded by bodyguards. While his wife whisked about Paris in a snow-white Chevrolet Bel Air and spent her evenings backstage at the Folies Pigalle, Martini stayed snugly at home in the suburban chateau, where every visitor was screened by three ham-handed Arab thugs. The empire was briery threatened last spring when a Corsican hood named Michel Defendin loudly announced his intention of "conquering the Place Pigalle." This threat evaporated last month when Defendin was found lying on the Place Pigalle with three bullets in his chest...
...need for it now." Instead of money and good advice, cried Ben-Gurion, the Zionists should provide Israel with trained and competent Jewish immigrants from the West. Because the flow of Jews to Israel has dwindled to 25,000 a year, "we are short of manpower." Of the hostile Arab nations surrounding Israel, Egypt alone is growing 24 times as fast. What is more, the new immigrants are mostly dark-skinned, backward Oriental Jews from the Middle East and, unless they are leavened 'by Westerners, he said, nothing can prevent Israel from "developing into a Levantine state." World Jewry...