Word: arabization
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...persistent as the summer drone of cicadas was the endless, repetitive caterwauling of radio voices throughout the Arab world last week. The clandestine Jordan People's Radio (which actually broadcasts from Syria) railed at King Hussein and his men: "The Jordanian people will reply to you with ropes; they will hang you on poles and watch your rotten bodies swing!" Baghdad Radio tried to spread infection to Iran with a Persian-language broadcast: "Dear compatriots, shake off the dust of humiliation and misery. Today all freedom-loving peoples have revolted against imperialism." Radio Cairo wooed the Sudan; the "Voice...
...constant exchange of radio invective, the ceaseless calls to arms fell upon Arab nerves already raw from poverty, humiliation, despair. In Lebanon, occasional bombs still went off, and 1,700 glad-to-be-gone U.S. marines left their fly-ridden bivouac in the dusty hills above Beirut and marched down to the beach for evacuation. There were hints that another marine battalion would shortly be withdrawn from Lebanon to the "floating reserve" of the Sixth Fleet...
...Jordan, 13 of 27 gunrunners were sentenced to be hanged (though privately this time, to spare the sensibilities of the British left), and the trial began of four young men and an Arab Christian girl charged with bomb throwing. Nonetheless, King Hussein was feeling secure enough to order the release of 50 army officers who had been held on suspicion of disloyalty. Not to be outdone, Israel announced it had uncovered "the biggest spy ring ever discovered" with the arrest of twelve Israeli Arabs who were working under the direction of Syrian military intelligence...
...defiance in accents as arresting as those of a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer from a minaret, with words as incendiary as a skyful of fire bombs. Nasser's propagandists were sure that they had the edge. Mused one contentedly: "Our radio is so successful because any Arab anywhere in the Arab world can simply turn the knob and hear the echo of thoughts that fill his own heart...
...more than the nationalistic glory it yearns for, the Arab world needs water. The Middle East thirsted when Moses "smote the rock twice: and the water came out," and it thirsts now. By and large, its lands have the necessary soils and minerals, lack only irrigation to bloom with fruit and grain. Last week, in his United Nations speech, President Eisenhower took due note that water could end much Middle Eastern misery, and offered U.S. aid in getting it. In Washington other top officials showed how water could be found. Some ways and means: ¶ Radioactive isotopes. To find underground...