Word: arabization
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...deal elevated Nasser to a role he has coveted for some time, cock of the walk with the Arab world. Saudi Arabia urged all the Arab governments to follow Nasser's example. Said Saudi Arabia's Premier-Crown Prince Feisal: "The purchase of arms means the purchase of steel, not the purchase of ideologies." Even in Lebanon, the Arab country most closely oriented toward the U.S., the Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution unanimously supporting Egypt. Though it will be some time before the arms deal has the desired effect, Nasser felt strong enough to shout his plans...
...going the other way. A trend in the other direction might possibly be started by agreement on the division of the waters of the Jordan River." By nice coincidence, President Eisenhower's special envoy Eric Johnston arrived in Cairo at week's end for showdown talks with Arab leaders on the U.S.-sponsored Jordan Valley development plan, which would provide irrigable land for the resettlement of up to 200,000 refugee Arabs...
...threats were not enough. In a froth of anticolonialism whipped up by the 14-nation Arab-Asian bloc, and with the united vote of the Soviet bloc, the General Assembly overruled its powerful Steering Committee (for the first time on a major issue) and voted to debate France's conduct in the troubled North African region of Algeria. The rebellion carried by only one vote-28 to 27*-but that one vote was enough to plunge the U.N. and France into dramatic antagonism...
...other hand, the Arab-Asian nations, blandly encouraged by the Soviet bloc, had picked a most sensitive and questionable case in which to pit their whim against the loosely worded U.N. Charter prohibition against meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign nations. Unlike Morocco, a protectorate, Algeria is, in French eyes, at least as much a part of France as Alaska is part of the U.S. This much of the French case the U.S. supported when it voted with France against any U.N. debate...
...vote split the twelve NATO allies in the U.N., ten voting against debate, Greece siding with the Arab-Asian and Soviet blocs, Iceland abstaining. It also divided the Latin Americans-eleven against, six for, two abstaining...