Word: arabization
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...makeshift peace agreement which ended the Palestine War appeared to be just another temporary settlement. Military positions determined borderlines, and Jerusalem was cut in half. But in spite of violent Arab threats, the peace has lasted, and there is now the growing possibility that it will be permanent. The only political change since the end of the war was Jordan's formalization of its control of Arab Palestine...
Proust on the Subway. The Voice listener is apt to hear a great many wide-eyed, breathless stories about New York. Arab listeners were recently offered (Allah only knows why) a broadcast on Central Park which furnished the following startling information: "If you drive in through one of the streets that cross the park from west to east, or vice versa, you will probably go down a number of circular roads, and as the roads wind, your car will follow, and in half an hour or so you are back at the same point from which you started...
...cutting $250 million from the Administration's proposed EGA appropriation, and pruned $20 million from the President's Point Four program. The foreign-aid bill as it finally passed the House totaled $3.1 billion: EGA, $2.85 billion; Korean aid, $100 million; China and contiguous areas, $100 million; Arab refugee relief in Palestine, $27.4 million; Point Four, $25 million. Next stop: the Senate...
...Collectors by Land. On trips through open country they were stopped by Arab bands, and forced to give a head tax. One time Felix almost gave his head, when a mounted Arab ran full tilt at him and "tore my cap off" with his lance. If it wasn't the Moslems it was their bats, which were reputed to bite off the noses of strangers and fly away with them. "Men who have long noses," Felix concluded soberly, "are in greater danger than others...
Died. Sir Ahmed Ibn Al Jabir Al Subah, 64, oil-rich ruler of the Arab sheikdom of Kuwait, near the head of the Persian Gulf; of a heart attack; in his capital, Al Kuwait...