Word: arabization
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...coastal waters and four R.A.F. jet fighters roared up from a Persian Gulf sandstrip to fire rockets and cannon into the mud-brick-walled rebel citadels in the mountains of Oman. Cairo's press and radio filled the air with shouts about "a British attack on Arab nationalism." Actually it was not much of a war; only the current state of Middle East nerves made it front-page news...
...Waterfield, was on home leave in England. So was Britain's top political resident in the Persian Gulf, Sir Bernard Burrows. That left command of the Sultan's army to Major Pat Gray, one of the soldierly Britons who were tossed out of Jordan's Arab Legion along with Glubb Pasha. In response to the hillmen's attack, Major Gray sent several truckloads of troops up to reinforce the garrison, but they were stopped by mines-the first land mines ever used in battle in the Sultanate. At this point the Sultan consulted his Foreign Minister...
...overhead, Soviet-made jet bombers and fighters flashing good form in their first flypast (but showing gaps on the second pass because some were unable to keep in formation). The Russian arms were impressive, but conspicuously missing from the parade were last year's armed units from other Arab nations. It was a revealing indication of Nasser's diminished popularity with other Arab governments...
...India have adopted vast development programs that are based more on artificial paper goals than economic realities. But underdeveloped lands lack the basic industry to create new capital, as well as the savings institutions to channel what money there is into industry. The average Middle Easterner, says one Arab economist, "hides whatever money he acquires in a pillowcase-if he owns one." Nor is it easy to get capital abroad, since Western nations have more use for their capital at home than ever before...
...linger today. Corporal Riesen barely had time to write his book and to enjoy the fruits of his Croix de la V ail lance Vietnamienne, with palm, before he was sent off to crumbling Algeria. There, last December, his devotion to La Patrie led him to death in an Arab ambush...