Word: arabization
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...Arab world from Cairo to Damascus to Jidda broke into shrill cries of rage. Hurriedly calling delegates from many Mideast countries for an emergency meeting, the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (membership: 2,000,000) gave the New York pickets a week to halt their boycott. "Unless they unload Cleopatra by that time, we will do the same thing to American ships in all Arab ports," said a top official. Sure enough, at the zero hour, Alexandria dockers resoundingly proclaimed, "In the name of Allah and Arabism, we Arab workers by Allah's blessing start our boycott...
Nasser was getting wide support even from his rivals in the Arab world. Tunisia, Jordan and Iraq unions backed the boycott. U.S. commerce would suffer slightly and Nasser's United Arab Republic stood to lose some badly needed machinery and wheat. In Manhattan, the federal courts had refused to interfere, and on Pier 16 the pickets trudged on, ignoring a plea from the State Department that such "an effort by a private group to apply pressure publicly with a view to bringing about shifts in the policies of foreign governments is embarrassing to our government's foreign relations...
Through Baghdad's crowded streets and souks last week a strange funeral procession wended its way, picking up bystanders, small boys and stray dogs as an avalanche gathers sticks and stones. At the head of the column, Arab women wailed and rent their garments, their faces plastered with clay in sign of mourning. Behind came the pallbearers, carrying a coffin that contained the body of Kassem Shakhnoub. That morning, at a cement plant where Shakhnoub worked, police had broken up a strike called by the Communist-led union. In the midst of the confusion, Shakhnoub had keeled over...
...least amicable borders in the world is the endlessly patrolled line between Turkey and its ancient enemy, the U.S.S.R. Thus it seemed odd to some quarters of the Arab world when Turkey's Premier Adrian Menderes and the Soviet Union's Nikita Khrushchev last week accepted reciprocal invitations for official visits. But then, everybody's visiting everybody these days. Menderes will toddle up to Moscow some time in July; Khrushchev will soar down to Ankara at a later date...
...Communists are still a major force in the ill-disciplined life of post-revolutionary Iraq. But today in Baghdad people no longer talk of an impending Communist takeover. Overaggressive Red tactics have wearied public opinion. Though Premier Karim Kassem still accepts Communist support to balance off pro-Nasser Arab nationalist elements, he refuses to license the regular party as a lawful political entity. In Basra, once a Communist citadel, authorities have jailed about 100 Communist labor leaders on charges of misappropriating union funds. Last week the Court of Cassation forbade the Communist-run Democratic Youth League permission to open...