Word: arabization
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...strong neutralist pressure to bring a fresh start to arms talks was by a proposal from President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic that President Eisenhower and the Soviet premier get together to clear the for resuming negotiations...
...past, the Communists dealt with such countries only through the apparatus of subversion-organizing cells, fomenting strikes, infiltrating fronts, subverting governments. But now new governments are taking power in these places, which are primarily anticolonialist. They look about in the spirit of the Arab proverb: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend...
...Vacation. The outrage in Amman brought a quick end to the brief truce that had been established between Hus sein and Nasser a week earlier at an Arab League meeting in Lebanon. Jordan police arrested an Amman bookshop owner named Salah el Saffadi, who was said to have confessed that the explosives used to murder Majali had arrived at his bookstall from Syria innocuously labeled "press material." The two fugitive employees had dragged the bombs into the office building in suitcases the night before and set the fuses. One left the country by midnight. The other, said police, coolly collected...
...poured more than $800 million into Iran since World War II. By bringing Iran under its influence, Russia would knock out the last anti-Communist alliance in the vast area between Western Europe and the Far East, and would acquire a land bridge to the troubled Arab world. Should the Shah lose his fight for his dynasty and his nation, the Soviets would at last be free to dominate the Middle East...
...nation changed its name officially in 1935 from Persia to Iran, a variation of the word Aryan, one of its principal peoples. This was done in part to point up the ethnic contrast with its Semitic neighbors. Though Moslem, Iran is not Arab, a fact that has saved it from the Nasser-sponsored troubles that have rocked the rest of the Middle East. -Far more beautiful: the ancient tiled mosque city of Isfahan to the south, which in the 16th century reign of Shah Abbas was a greater city than Elizabethan London...