Word: mideast
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West Germany's Mideast muddle unhappily reminded its citizens of just how fickle is the good will they have worked so hard to accumulate since World War II. Declared Britain's Central Jewish Organization last week: "A German government which 20 years after Hitler is prepared without shame to sacrifice the vital needs of Israel will be condemned by all men of good will...
...Under Castello Branco's order, Panair's domestic service will go to Cruzeiro do Sul and VASP, which fly to most of the same cities anyway. The real prize, Panair's routes to Europe and the Mideast, will go to Varig, which is already South America's biggest airline and by far its best. Founded in 1927, Varig has been run for the past 23 years by Ruben Berta, 57, a onetime Lufthansa accountant who has built it into an international operation with routes to South America's west coast and the U.S., a huge...
...EGYPT has received the lion's share ($835 million) of Moscow's Mideast aid largely because of the showcase Aswan Dam, estimated to cost ultimately $1 billion, of which the Soviets are putting up nearly 30%. Aswan is the world's most striking aid project, and the Russians are breaking their backs to do the job right and on time, and are largely succeeding-even at the expense of Siberian dam projects, delayed because Russia's top engineering talent is in Egypt. The Russians are also expanding the Helwan steel complex and the Suez refinery...
...Iran was called "Freeland" and, rather inappropriately, considering the conditions that prevail over much of well-refrigerated Russia, the invading forces were dubbed "Sun-land." But since Iran shares 1,500 miles of its northern border with Russia, the name did not fool anyone. Staged in cooperation with the mideast CENTO military alliance and planned by U.S. General Paul Adams' Tampa-based MEAFSA command (see box), the war games were clearly designed to buck up a nervous U.S. ally in whom the U.S. has invested one-half billion dollars in military assistance. Said one U.S. State Department planner...
...book of world issues is thick," says one State Department man. "They're going to require decisions." Everywhere the new Administration looks, there are banked fires that could crackle into life at any moment. In the Mideast, the Arab states threaten war if Israel goes ahead next spring with its planned diversion of the River Jordan's waters. In Laos, the fighting between the Communist Pathet Lao and the neutralists could flare any time. In Brazil, runaway inflation threatens the nation with chaos. There are incipient crises in Chile and Haiti, Cambodia and Malaysia, and a shooting...