Word: arabization
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...covering the Middle East's biggest stories, including six TIME covers, Mecklin has come to know well every Arab head of state except the Imam of Yemen and the Sheik of Kuwait. He was on close enough terms with Nasser to be chosen for the dictator's first interview, six hours long, after the Suez war. That friendship has since chilled. He was a good friend of the late Nuri Pasha of Iraq, who always greeted him with the shout: "Hey Look!" Saudi Arabia's King Saud once gave him a wristwatch-though, since TIME...
...Warned the man who had kicked off the crisis by subverting the friendly government of Iraq and killing its leaders, the man behind the attempt to subvert Lebanon and Jordan-the United Arab Republic's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser-that he would face "grave consequences" if he interfered with the U.S. forces in Lebanon...
...Eisenhower Administration has chosen to regard Arab nationalism as identical with Communism, or at least as equally dangerous to the West. The truth of the matter is that our policy is as false as it is fatal...
...disappearance of all Arab governments that are pro-Western by inclination, or that dissent from Nasser's concept of pan-Arabism, would carry starkly tragic implications...
...downfall of his most hated Arab rival, and in the hour of his own victory, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser put on the appearance of a reasonable man: "Why does America get mad when free men of Iraq say they will protect their agreements, obligations and the peace?" Although the new Iraqi regime quickly signed a defense pact "against aggression" with Nasser, it promised to keep oil flowing to the West. Yet Nasser himself, in the first days of the nerve-jangling week, had been unable to sustain the look of the innocent and casual vacationer sailing through...