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...article in your issue of Nov. 2, on the boycott of Israel by Arab nations, you included this company in a list of firms that "have removed themselves from the Arab League blacklist by deciding that doing business in Israel is uneconomic." We were never on such a blacklist. The facts are that for a few years we owned a company that did a relatively small (about 5% of the market) business selling oil in Israel. Problems of foreign exchange and competition from the government-owned oil-marketing company in Israel made the operation unattractive from a purely commercial standpoint...
Kassem's public utterances, at first so mild, impersonal and idealistic through the bitter slanging match that raged between Iraq and Nasser's United Arab Republic, have suddenly taken on a high emotional tone. To visitors at Baghdad's As-Salaam Hospital, he declared last week that the Iraqi revolution had delayed World War III for several years. ''We were the reason for the rapprochement among the big powers," he boasted...
Nations at odds often share with taunting children and shrewish wives an inspired instinct for the stinging epithet that penetrates and festers. Arab maps sometimes refer to Israel as "Jewish Occupied Palestine." Russians in the U.N. call Nationalist China delegates the "representatives of the Kuomintang." And for some twelve years since the acrimonious partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Pakistani press, with considered malice and conscientious glee, has called India "Bharat" and referred to Indians as "Bharatis...
Armed with powers second only to those of the President himself, Amer arrived secretly by destroyer-a security measure made necessary by the fact that the United Arab Republic is separated by Israel-and promptly went to work on the Syrian army. It was suffering from the familiar fear of Syria's 4,200,000 citizens that they are about to be reduced to a parity with Egypt's poorer 24,800,000. "My brethren," cried Amer, "be cautious of the intrigues of the opportunists and of destructive rumors." There was nothing, he added fervently, to the rumors...
...United Arab Republic frontier guards and camel corps began a search...