Word: arabization
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Legendary Grandfather. In 1815 Europeans began penetrating the thick forests of Guinea, which was to give its name to a coin of purest gold, a kind of grass, and a species of hen. Among them was a young Frenchman named René Caillé, who, dressed as an Arab, talked of his captivity by the Egyptians, was accepted as a Moslem and was able to make his famed journey safely to Timbuktu. After him other Frenchmen came, and eventually, by the "rules of the game,"*laid down by the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 for spreading civilization throughout darkest Africa...
...Western Europe, Communist strength is down. In the Middle East, Arab nationalism is for the first time beginning to show substantial misgivings about Communism's brotherly support. Not long ago those Misters In-Between-Nehru, Nasser and Tito-were neutral in Moscow's favor; now they all have their doubts...
Wide-eyed Cinemactress Audrey Hepburn, on a grey Arab steed, bounced prettily before the cameras in Durango, Mexico. Suddenly, someone yelled "Cut." The stallion stopped, tumbled little Audrey over its head. She went off to the hospital, and doctors labored over the verdict: four cracked vertebrae, a badly sprained left foot. Bedded, she will be out of camera range for six weeks...
Aref, a thrusting young Arab nationalist, fell because he tried to force Iraq into a quick union with Nasser's United Arab Republic. An Iraqi nationalist before all, Premier Kassem had tried to divest his friend by exiling him to the ambassadorship to West Germany. When Aref returned without permission at an awkward time, the Premier ordered his arrest. Kassem had decided personally, said the prosecutor, not to divulge "details" of Aref's trial, "in the interests of Arab solidarity." Nor was any sentence made public, though for treason there is usually only one punishment, and that quite...
Died. M. Zakaria Goneim, 48, United Arab Republic Egyptologist, who in 1953 discovered a pyramid built nearly 5,000 years ago in the Third Dynasty reign of Sekhem-Khet; apparently by his own hand (his body was found floating in the Nile); at Cairo. Heralded as one of the most significant Egyptological discoveries since Britain's Howard Carter found Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922, Goneim's "lost pyramid" was thought to hold the mummy of Sekhem-Khet, but the pink alabaster sarcophagus within proved empty. Why empty? Goneim thought it was intended for the Sed Festival...