Word: mideast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regularly read by network executives, program sponsors and advertising agencies. Such critics can point to a few direct results of their influence. During the 1956 Suez crisis, several blistering columns by the Times's Gould shamed all three networks into covering the U.N. Security Council debate on the Mideast. After John Crosby rapped CBS for vapid programing, CBS Board Chairman William Paley postponed a European vacation to help whip up something better. This fall, before putting on the air the new private-eye program called Staccato, the producer invited Los Angeles' Humphrey to appraise the opening show. After...
...tables to show Kassem the soles of their feet-an Arab gesture of contempt. Demonstrators protesting last month's execution of 13 popular Iraqi army officers (TIME, Sept. 28) even dared to chant: "Allah is great, Kassem is crazy." In the sultry heat of Baghdad, many an old Mideast hand could smell trouble...
...lifts the ban on underground and space testing, U.S. planners can get on with sorely needed nuclear development (clean bombs, anti-missile missiles, compact Army and Navy weapons and pure-science experiments) at a time when such strength can be the tranquilizer for Communist-inspired tensions in Germany, the Mideast and Asia...
...Mideast, too, one of the torchbearers of neutralism showed further signs of awakening. The U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, ranging himself against the Reds who surround Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, admitted that he once thought that Arab Communists were independent of Moscow. "But they were not," said Nasser; they were trying to sow dissension and "put us into spheres of influence...
...Communists have established themselves as the sole strong political organization in the new republic, dominating the mobs, the press, the radio and parts of the government. On their behalf, a drumhead People's Court, whose broadcast proceedings are challenging Cairo's Voice of the Arabs as the Mideast's most popular radio program, fills the Iraqi people with Communist-made opinions. Such is the nightmarish atmosphere that in at least one Iraqi city (Basra) the populace is firmly convinced that Communist-led unions have prepared a list of local employers, merchants and professional men to be liquidated...