Word: arabization
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...Russian-built MIGs circled overhead, an American-piloted Convair dropped down on Cairo's airport. Erupting from its interior came six fierce-looking bodyguards, their gold daggers glinting beside shiny machine pistols thrust in their black bandoleers. Twenty-one guns boomed ceremonially as a tall, majestically robed Arab King stepped down from the plane, silver-rimmed spectacles gleaming beneath his flowing, gold-banded headdress. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, an Arab in a business suit, stepped forward, and kissed him on both cheeks...
...Middle East itself, reported seasoned observers, the President's plan was being read (as it was meant to be read) not only as an offer of U.S. help and a symbol of the U.S.'s support for the independence of Arab nations, but as a sharp warning that the Arabs should no longer try to play off East against West. And never was there more urgent need, reported these observers, for the U.S. to consolidate its position with skillfully applied economic...
...declaration of intentions" toward revolt-torn Algeria. It was sadly anticlimactic. Mollet's intentions are almost identical to his intentions of a year ago: Algeria could have free elections once the rebels had agreed to a ceasefire, but she could not have independence. "This declaration," rasped an angry Arab spokesman, "contains no. new element and offers no opportunity for an eventual peaceful settlement...
...officials have discounted such reports, though the State Department conceded last week that the newest Syrian Cabinet was more leftish than State anticipated. Syria was the most outspoken Arab country in acclaiming Soviet "intervention"' at the time of last November's Middle East ceasefire. When the Russians intervened with murder and treachery in Hungary, Syrian newspapers printed nothing but Tass accounts of what went on in Budapest. Last week's Cabinet change reflected a coming into the open, if not coming fully to power, of the pro-Soviet and pro-Nasser clique headed by the Syrian army...
...discovery goes back to 1921, when some British soldiers, digging in during a skirmish with Arab tribesmen, found, fragments of old buildings in the Syrian desert sand. Excited archaeologists dug deeper, came upon the Syrian city of Dura-Europos, which in about A.D. 250 had been a garrisoned outpost of the Roman Empire, athwart the main trade route between Antioch and Seleucia. Dura had a large Jewish community and a sizable synagogue. On the synagogue's walls the excavators found murals illustrating Old Testament stories, with certain Talmudic touches added...