Word: arabization
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...Beirut not long ago, John Scott of the publisher's office asked Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun what were the prerequisites for Arab-Israeli peace. The President frowned and said that Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov had somewhat absently asked the same question that very morning before he began to talk of trade in dried fruits. Sometimes he wondered, Chamoun added with a touch of bitterness, if the East or West really wanted stability in the Middle East. Later, at Amritsar in the Punjab, Scott faced an audience of bearded Sikhs and smooth-jowled Indian businessmen who bombarded...
...Arab mothers are weeping this morning-but such tears bring no ease to bitter hearts." Instead of compelling the Jordan government to impose its authority to restrain the border troublemakers, com plained the independent newspaper Haaretz, Israel's policy of five eyes for an eye will undoubtedly weaken the Jordan government and consequently lessen the chances of border quiet. In Manhattan the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold warned that unless both Israel and Jordan establish "a discipline sufficiently firm to forestall" such outbreaks, the cease-fire that he negotiated last April will become a "dead letter...
...special supplement on "The Arab World," Professor Gibb asserted that the momentum toward authoritarian national regimes is opposed by "tentative movements to rebuild the social organism on Islamic principles, and so create a moral reunion of the Arab peoples...
Gibb calls the masses "not narrowly national, but pan-Arab," although they lack a basic social philosophy or institutions to canalize their will...
Because of the poverty of the region and the lack of balanced natural resources, the Arab states must undertake a mammouth program of public works, Polk stressed...