Word: arabization
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When one reads of the inhuman and needless carnage of the Iraq revolt, one wonders if the teeming masses of the Arab countries are capable of, or indeed have a right to, self-determination...
...Combat Poverty. "To help the Arab countries fulfill their aspirations," the President proposed a regional economic development institution, "governed by the Arab states themselves," to which other countries would contribute money and technical assistance. If the Arab countries agree to set up such an institution and "support it with their own resources, the U.S. would also be prepared to support it" (with perhaps $100 million a year, said Administration spokesmen...
...President offered no specific formulas for carrying out any of these points, but this vagueness was deliberate: it would take long and patient consultation with other delegations to work out formulas that a majority of the U.N.'s members would support-and that the Arab countries would accept. Only on point five did the President elaborate. A regional development program, he said, might make it possible to solve the Middle East's "great common shortage-water." With mid-century advances in water technology (see SCIENCE), the "ancient problem of water is on the threshold of solution. Energy, determination...
...Israel's best Afro-Asian friends-especially Ghana and Burma-made their disapproval clear. Two left-wing parties in Ben-Gurion's coalition were strongly against letting Israel appear too committed to the West. Furthermore, Israel has tried to avoid backing one faction or another among Arab powers, whether Hussein or Nasser, on the ground that all are violently anti-Israel...
...Cyprus. For six weeks an apparent softening had been noticeable in the Greek position, a willingness to explore a settlement that would not insist on the future rights of enosis, i.e., the union of Cyprus with Greece. Turkey, too, was so absorbed by the revolutionary turmoil of her Arab neighbors that Cyprus for the first time in months was off the front pages of Turkish newspapers...