Word: arabization
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...Manhattan, Lebanon's scholarly Ambassador Charles Malik appealed to the Security Council for aid against the "indirect aggression" of the United Arab Republic of Syria and Egypt. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge supported Malik, said it was clear that the United Arab Republic has been promoting "civil strife" in Lebanon, stressed that "this is no time to quibble while Rome burns...
...that would take a force of perhaps 5,000 men. But they were empowered to report, not to halt, any infiltration of the border. The fact was that, at the moment, the real difficulty was not so much the direct outside help as the maneuverings of Pan-Arab elements inside Lebanon, led by ex-Premier Saeb Salam. The odd reluctance to push matters to a fighting conclusion stemmed from the realization, among many Christians and Moslems alike, that prosperous Lebanon could exist only as a dual state of Moslems and Christians, and if events were pushed to an armed test...
...strain of terrorist activity, he snapped: "It's easy. I get up angry in the morning and I go to bed angry at night." Abbane was a Kabyle, a member of a rugged mountain race that looks down on the other Berber tribes and especially on the Arab Algerians of the cities. The Kabyles' history is old and militant: under King Jugurtha, they held off the might of ancient Rome for five bloody years; they battled the Arab and Turkish invaders of North Africa; led by a "Joan of Arc" called Lalla Fatma, they fought the conquering French...
...Mixed Armistice Commission, to go to the spot, bring about a cease-fire and arrange for the evacuation of the wounded. Colonel Flint, a tough, wiry Korean war veteran, had been badly wounded by an exploding mine on Mount Scopus two years before. He set forth immediately for the Arab village of Issawiya, on the Jordanian sector of Mount Scopus. Checking fast, he learned that four members of an Israeli police patrol lay wounded at the edge of the Israeli zone where they had been hit in the first shooting; other Israelis crawling up to rescue them appeared...
...dogged hope that "there should be no further intervention in our affairs from abroad," Lebanese Foreign Minister Charles Malik hurried to New York to press charges before the U. N. this week of "massive" aid to the rebels by Nasser's United Arab Republic...