Word: arabization
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...Deep in the Middle East desert last week, a burnoosed Arab swung a Geiger counter over a fat steel pipe, tracing the progress of a radioactive swab inside. Behind the swab pushed a brown tide of oil, bound on a 1,068-mile journey from Arabian-American Oil Co.'s vast Saudi Arabian wells to the Mediterranean port of Sidon, in Lebanon. It was the first oil to pass through the $200 million Trans-Arabian pipeline (known as Tapline), the biggest overseas construction project ever financed by private U.S. capital...
...resolution brought a protest from Uruguayan delegate Enrique Rodriguez Fabregat. Said Fabregat, "Nothing has changed in Spain . . . The same totalitarian regime still exists." It was also opposed by the U.S.S.R. and its satellites. But with the support of the U.S., Canada, Arab nations and most Latin American countries, the move to recognize the "reality" of the Spanish situation seemed sure to pass both the U.N. Special Political Committee and the General Assembly...
...Ralph Bunche, former U.N. Mediator in the Arab-Israeli war, became the first Negro ever...
...success in ending the war between Israel and her Arab neighbors, broad-shouldered Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche had been showered with 40 awards and medals and 20 honorary academic degrees. One afternoon last week as Bunche, now senior director of the U.N. Trusteeship Department, was eating lunch in the delegates' dining room at Lake Success, his British secretary Mrs. Doreen Daughton dashed up with news of another honor. "I have a surprise for you," she told Ralph Bunche. "You've won the Nobel Peace Prize...
...Sweden, Bunche had quickly won the count's friendship and admiration. After Bernadotte's assassination by Israeli terrorists in September 1948, Bunche carried on Bernadotte's job. At his headquarters on the Aegean Island of Rhodes the American charmed, cajoled and sometimes bullied testy, mistrustful Arab and Israeli peace negotiators. Bunche worked tirelessly 16 to 20 hours a day, lighting one cigarette off another and drinking vast quantities of orange juice. (Some of his staff members, he recalls, insisted bitterly that the orange juice, like every other form of nourishment on Rhodes, was flavored with olive...