Word: arabization
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...years after that wild day when the Egyptians sank 40 ships to plug the Suez Canal, the world's No. 1 international waterway hummed last week with peaceful trade, and a golden flood of hard-currency tolls poured into President Nasser's United Arab Republic treasury...
...often broken while still technically honored-through side bonuses, generous rentals, air-conditioned Cadillacs or airplanes presented to sheiks. But on one matter the major oil companies of the world, which may compete at filling-station pumps but frequently join in partnership abroad, were adamant. They would split with Arab governments only at the production stage, would not let governments in on the profits of marketing. This week negotiations are heading for a showdown in Jidda between the Saudi Arabian government and one of the biggest U.S. oil companies that could upset the whole grand scheme...
From one of Nasser's clandestine propaganda stations, calling itself the Jordan People's Radio came this news report to the Arab people last week: "Eisenhower, the old man of the imperialist American dollar, visits his country's surgical hospitals every now and then to undergo some operation or other. This has gone on so long that his body has become one big lump of drugs. The ultimate treatment for a septic part of the body is amputation, and, as many patches on Eisenhower's body will eventually end him up on the city dump...
Next day in the U.N., defending Nasser's vicious and inflammatory propaganda in the Middle East, Nasser's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi said: "It has been claimed that some Arab broadcasts do not conform to certain standards. The fact is that these broadcasts are feared and hated . . . because they tell the truth ... in the plain, sun-baked language...
Abba Eban, Ambassador to the United States from Israel, will discuss the "Significance of the United Arab Republic" tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...