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What was immediate and sure was the beeper's psychological impact. In many quarters U.S. discomfiture was greeted with open glee. RUSSIANS RIP AMERICAN FACE, headlined Bangkok's Sathiraphab, and in Beirut a university professor said wryly of his Arab students: "You would have thought they launched it themselves." But nowhere was the beeper's impact so ominous as in the neutral nations of Afro-Asia, where hundreds of millions of uncommitted minds waver between East and West. Its message, said the London Economist last week, was a simple one: "We Russians, a backward people ourselves less...
...unalterably opposed to any such scheme - if only because revival of the hated Ottoman Empire, even in polite 20th century form, would surely set the Arab world aflame...
Khrushchev's threats took shrewd ad vantage of a moment which found the U.S.'s Middle East position in temporary disarray. In its attempts to rouse the area to the threat presented by a Communist-dominated Syria, the U.S. had displayed its power too nakedly, set Arab leaders off in a whipped-up frenzy of public denunciation of U.S. interference and pledges of confidence in Syria. As a result the bloc of "reasonable Arabs" - Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia - which the U.S. hoped to solidify had fallen into suspicious disorder. Jordan's King Hussein, plagued...
...voices are raised more often or more indignantly over the plight of Arab refugees in the Middle East than those of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Last week, during a special refugee relief fund-raising conference at the U.N., 22 nations agreed to contribute some $28 million to UNRWA, on whom 900,000 Arab refugees are almost totally dependent for food, clothing and shelter. The U.S. pledged $21.8 million, Britain $5.8 million. Among smaller contributors was Yugoslavia, which pledged $40,000. Total contributions from the Soviet Union and its satellites: zero...
...Malik and Israel's David Ben-Gurion to sell out Palestine's refugees to Israel. It accused the U.S. of massing troops behind Turkey's southeastern border to invade Syria. It said that the U.S. has loosed 4,000 agents in the Middle East to destroy Arab nationalism. It reported that a U.S. diplomat in New Delhi tried to steal the Taj Mahal jewels in hopes of inciting a Hindu-Moslem race riot. The newspaper Al Kahira characterized the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles as "a sadist," and Al Gum-huria called him a "madman...