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...company spudded in, ironically, almost precisely where the British-owned Iraq Petroleum Co. abandoned a test drilling in 1947 after going down 3,500 ft. The strike promised a major oil field, sufficient at least to save Israel $50 million* in oil imports a year, weaken the Arab states' blockade and diminish the country's dependence on the West. For the first time since their state was established, Israelis now saw the means to economic independence in their grasp. This produced an almost immediate stiffening of political independence as well...
...specific G.A.W. fund when he was fired, quit, retired or died. At week's end, negotiations between the company and union were stalled because the company was pushing for G.A.W. and the union was steadfastly refusing to accept it. Cracked Business Agent Gerard: "It would be like equipping Arab camel drivers with life jackets in case they ever drove into a mirage that turned out to be a real lake...
...They were obligated to us." Looking around for a nominal leader who would inspire respect, he found Mohammed Naguib, a pipe-smoking colonel of bluff honesty. Tacit support was given by the Moslem Brotherhood when Nasser promised the Mufti of Jerusalem that he would help out with the Arab defense of Palestine...
...Time to Act. But when the Arab defenses collapsed and the Egyptians were forced by Israeli strength to make an armistice in 1949, Moslem resentment smoldered, later flamed up. "Liberation guerrillas" attacked the British, by then withdrawn to the Suez Canal zone. Then they cut loose in Cairo, where they burned bars, restaurants, movie houses (all sinful in Moslem eyes) and hotels frequented by foreigners. Farouk's wobbly government began to cave in and a state of emergency was declared...
...Hurry. It is easy to read a plot into some of Nasser's recent moves. Cairo's Voice of the Arabs radio pours a stream of anti-French propaganda into Morocco, and Nasser gives warm asylum to old Riff Rebel Abd el Krim, a key North African troublemaker, as well as to Jerusalem's Jew-hating Mufti. In the Gaza strip he allows, if he does not approve, the arming and training of the Al Fedayeen commandos, teams of Palestine Arab refugees which periodically cross the border to raid Israel. At the Bandung Conference last April, where...