Word: arabization
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...patient diplomatic efforts to keep lids on a dozen potential volcanoes in the Arab world, the U.S. has to walk with care along the mountainous hatreds between the Arab nations and Israel. If U.S. diplomacy is offended in principle by the fact that Egypt's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser bars the Suez Canal to all Israeli shipping and blacklists all ships that traffic in Israeli ports, in private it thinks first about all those Arab volcanoes spouting at the same time. Last week the State Department found the whole delicately balanced U.S. position in the Middle East jeopardized...
...labor. No one questioned the legitimacy of the seamen's grievances, but Nasser angrily retaliated by declaring a counter-boycott of all U.S. shipping. The trouble spread quickly to other Moslem nations, including such carefully cultivated friends of the U.S. as Tunisia and Libya. The enraged Arab nations cut off radio communication with American ships, threatened to extend their boycotts to commercial air traffic...
...questioned the justice of the pickets' protest. Real complaint was that their effort to reverse Nasser's policy was ineffective. But by persisting, the pickets were needlessly jeopardizing the small store of good will that the U.S. has painstakingly worked to accumulate with the touchy Arab world...
...only powering the unprecedented industrial growth of the West; it is also putting many an underdeveloped country on wheels for the first time. Today every nation wants its own oil industry and is determined to have it. Mindful of the oil wealth of the Arab sheiks, all countries suddenly see oil as the key that will open to their treasuries the fabulous riches of the Arabian nights...
...Group also likes its employees to wear Shell emblems in their buttonholes as symbols of international togetherness. Discrimination is strictly prohibited (though the company, like Aramco, cannot get visas to Arab countries for its Jewish employees). When a British employee in Egypt protested that he did not want to share an office with a newly promoted Egyptian, the local manager snapped: "There's a tanker leaving tomorrow...