Word: arabization
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...Russia would ever resort to brinkmanship. The U.S. could resign itself to a long summer of Russian indignation, parades, protest meetings. All of this uproar might easily obscure the main facts of the week: that in the troubled crossroads of the Middle East, the misty but passionate creed of Arab unity had destroyed every major Western position; and that the West had yet to find a way to live with the creed or to bring it down-and had not even decided which course was more desirable...
...Leave") and identified his unit as the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Marine Regiment than one of his men appeared with a "Lebanese officer" in tow. Barked Colonel Hadd: "If he's not armed, let him loose." Thereupon the "officer" nervously identified his uniform as that of the Arab Airways and asked in English, "I know you're busy, sir, but could you tell us how long this will last? We have a lot of planes tied...
...done much fighting so far, might be talking only for the record. But if the marines (and the later arriving Army paratroopers) seemed to have the military situation in hand, as much could not be said for the political front. In the delicately balanced half-Christian, half-Moslem Arab nation, the Moslems began to solidify their opposition to Maronite Christian President Chamoun. Adel Osseyran, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, protested to the U.N. against Chamoun's failure to consult Deputies before calling for U.S. help. One pro-Western Deputy said that 40 of the 66 members of parliament were...
...place particularly hot went off on a graciously appointed yachting cruise with his family to visit his old friend Tito at the marshal's isle of Brioni in the blue Adriatic. In that way, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, President and founder of the New United Arab Republic, could escape the heat built up by his subversive doings in Lebanon. And he could also pursue his studies at Tito's knee in the perilous and racking business of how to run a revolution with Moscow's approbation and material help-but without letting the Russians...
...bitter cold war with the Kremlin, embarrassedly denied that Nasser had gone back for Tito's advice before rushing to Moscow, insisted that Nasser must have gone ashore in Albania and taken a plane from there. The Russians, with widespread pleasure, proclaimed that the idol of the Arab masses had once again been their guest, this time to seek their help against the "American aggressors." But from Cairo came a wholly different version, indicating that Nasser's main purpose in flying to Moscow was to appeal to Khrushchev not to take any warlike action in the Middle East...