Word: arabization
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Distaste v. Panic. Inevitably, some pundits and politicos saw everything according to their own lights. A newspaper in Beirut had a familiar Arab reaction: "We consider that the dispute between the two blocs is a blessing to us. They could reach agreement only at our expense." And India's Jawaharlal Nehru characteristically declined to blame the summit breakdown on anyone ("All that I can do, first of all, is not get too excited"), but Indians in general only hoped that Russia was not now going to match Red China in bellicosity...
...debt in an oil-rich nation, beset by Nasser's efforts to stir up trouble inside the country, was compelled to call upon his more vigorous and cultivated brother, Crown Prince Feisal, to take charge of the country, save its finances, and restore its prestige in the Arab world. Since then, the treasury has been built up, and the throne has not been embroiled in the intrigues of Arab politics. But last January, Feisal, moving his country gradually forward into the 20th century, cautiously allowed a little press freedom-and the king saw a way of regaining the initiative...
...Senate, an anti-Arab amendment to the $4,175,000,000 foreign aid bill-already passed by the House-made diplomats shudder. Written by Illinois' liberal, pro-Israel Democrat Paul Douglas and endorsed by a gaggle of well-meaning Eastern Senators, the amendment would give President Eisenhower the power, but not the obligation, to withhold all mutual security funds from the United Arab Republic until the Suez Canal would again be open to Israeli shipping. The amendment posed no real threat to mutual security funds or to peace in the Middle East, but it was a sharp needle...
...counsel, Arthur Goldberg, discussed the situation for two days with Dillon and Mitchell, Meany was persuaded to relent. The State Department agreed to investigate the complaints of the Seafarers Union and to "do what it can" to end the anti-Israel blockade. Picketing of the Cleopatra ended and the Arab counter-boycott was called off. Truce, if not outright peace, returned to the troubled waterfronts of the world...
...would gradually inch up to form an inland sea about half as big as Lake Erie. After that, the rapid evaporation in the hot desert air plus some seepage and regulation of the water intake would keep the level permanently some 150 ft. below sea level, providing the United Arab Republic with a perpetual source of power. Estimated cost of the project: $360 million...