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...crude, has one-fortieth of Iraq's proven reserves, earns but a fiftieth of Kuwait's royalties. Yet Bahrein (rhyme with ah, rain) is the showplace of the oil kingdoms. Manama, the capital, looks more like a clean town in the West Indies or Bermuda than an Arab town. It has dial phones, running water, sewers, electricity. Mobile DDT sprayers roam over the islands. Malaria has been wiped out, trachoma is disappearing. There are schools and hospitals, and one of the few insane asylums in the whole Arab world...
...wears loud clothes and has a surprisingly unlined face for his 57 years. If all Britons in the Middle East were as able, deft and unruffled as Bahrein's Financial Consultant Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Britain would be winning, not losing, popularity contests in the Arab world. Belgrave, an officer in the British Camel Corps in the Sudan in World War I, answered a blind personal ad in the London Times in 1925. The job was to advise a sheik in Bahrein. Belgrave took it, married a childhood friend, and set out with her for the Persian Gulf. He found...
...gesture toward Arab unity, Jordan's King journeyed here to make a bond with his father's ancient enemy...
...Arabs insist that the Israeli army is staging planned forays into Arab territory to terrorize and keep the population off balance. One night early last month a party of Israelis crossed into the Arab village of Beit Jala near Bethlehem and blew up three houses, killing three men, two women and two children. The Arabs said they were Jewish soldiers; Israel conceded that the raiders were Jews but said they were marauders. In the past few nights, similar groups killed five Arabs in & about Jerusalem, through which the border runs...
...Israelis insist that their army is confined to its side of the border, is constantly harassed by Arab infiltrators intent on stealing food and construction materials, smuggling or visiting friends inside Israel. In communal settlements near the borders, Israelis play searchlights along their protective fences from dusk to dawn. The Israel government said last week that in the final three months of 1951, the war between infiltrating Arabs and Israeli border guards had cost the lives of 130 Arabs and 18 Israelis; 782 Arabs were captured. Thefts and damage committed by infiltrators in 1951 cost Israelis more than...