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Chronology June 1, 1965-August 31, 1965 Source: Middle East Journal, Vol Chronology June 1, 1965-August 31, 1965 Source: Middle East Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Autumn, 1965), pp. 487-516 Published by: Middle East Institute Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4323919 . Accessed: 20/07/2011 12:55 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at . http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=mei. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Middle East Institute is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Middle East Journal. http://www.jstor.org CHRONOLOGY* June 1, 1965-August 31, 1965 General July 13: India extendeddiplomatic recognition to the Arab League. 1965 July 20: The appointmentof justice ArthurJ. Gold- berg to succeedUN AmbassadorAdlai E. Stevenson June 1: The Rockefeller Foundation announced a caused widespreadconcern among Arab leaders, it series of grants to fight hunger in the Middle East was reported. including one of $171,500 to the FAO for Middle July 30: The RCD decided to establish a joint oil Eastern scientists to study grain improvementsin companywith headquartersin Iran to supply oil Latin America. to easternTurkey and to Pakistan. June 9: The 3,060 mile CENTO microwavetelephone Aug. 4: It was learned that the Hijaz Railway is line between Ankara,Tehran and Karachiwas in- being rebuilt with funds providedby Syria, Jordan augurated. and Saudi Arabia. June 13: The government of Nepal agreed to the Aug. 7: Iraq becamethe first Arab countryto sign an establishmentof an ArabLeague office in Katmandu "Arabcooperation agreement for the use of atomic with full diplomaticstatus. power in peaceful means,"sponsored by the Arab June 16: OrientalistEphraim A. Speiser died. League. June 18: The draft agreementdefining the continental Aug. 10: The Adolf Eichmannkidnapping case was shelf line between Iraq, Kuwayt and Iran was droppedfrom the list of issues before the Security signed, it was learned. Council. June 21: The new Algerian governmentwas urged Aug. 13: Choleraoutbreaks were reportedin southern by 13 Asian and African nations to postpone the Iran, northernAfghanistan and easternPakistan. Afro-Asian Conferencescheduled for June 29 in Aug. 15: German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard an- Algiers. nounced his willingness to reestablishdiplomatic June 22: The US SenateBanking Committee rejected relationswith any Arab governmentprovided they a mandatoryban against US companies'supplying made the first move. informationto Arab nations in furtheranceof the Aug. 25: British Ministerof State George Thompson economic boycott of Israel. began an extendedtour of the Middle East. June 23: ThirteenCommonwealth countries announced Aug. 28: A meeting of Arab chiefs of state is sched- their decision not to attend the Algiers Conference. uled for September13, in Casablanca,it was an- June 25: The OPEC will move its officesto Vienna, nounced. it was reported. June 26: The Afro-AsianConference was postponed until November 5. Afghanistan July 1: Britainwill increaseher contributionto UNEF (See also, General) and the UN force in Cyprusby ?620,000. July 2: The Regional Cooperationfor Development 1965 (RCD), composed of Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, June 25: The governmentsigned a Food for Peace abolished passports for citizens travelling in the agreementwith the US providing for the sale of RCD area. $1m worth of vegetable oils; 65 per cent of the * The quarterlychronology of the Journal is compiled from a large number of sources; somewhat more than half of the items are drawn from the New York Times; other sources include Mideast Mirror of Beirut, Middle East Economic Digest of London, Daily Report of Foreign Broadcast Information Service of Washington,Arab News and Views of New York, bulletins of the United Nations Office of Public Information, United Nations, New York, United Nations Newsletter, Middle East Economic Survey of Beirut, Economic Intelligence of the Chamber of Commerce of Washington, International Financial News Survey of the IMF in Washington, Middle East Economist and Financial Service, and Middle East News- letter of New York, regular and occasional bulletins from the officesof press attachesof Middle Eastern Embassies in Washington, Kashmir Affairs of Rawalpindi, Israel Digest of Jerusalem, the Kabul Times of Afghanistan and The Maghreb Digest of the School of InternationalRelations, University of Southern Californiain Los Angeles. 487 488 THE MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL afghanisreceived in paymentwill be used for loans Afghanistan,The Political History of Afghanistan to finance developmentprojects and the remainder and Islamic Literature,died. set aside for US uses. Aug. 3: The King and Queen began a 14-dayvisit in The IMF approveda 12-monthstand-by arrange- Moscowat the invitationof Presidentof the Presidi- ment with the governmentauthorizing drawings up um of the SupremeSoviet. to $6,750,000 in currenciesheld by the Fund. Aug. 13: The loan agreementcovering the import of June 29: Governmentofficials headed by Nour Ali, Soviet goods amountedto $10.3m, it was learned. Deputy Minister of Commerce,met with a mission Aug. 19: PremierMohammad Yusuf opened a wool- from the World Bank in Kabul. en mill in Kabul built with West Germaninvest- June 30: UNICEF will provide $260,000 for the ments. malariaeradication program and $152,000 for the child and mothercare programduring 1966, it was reported. Algeria July 1: The OfficialGazette published the Land Sur- vey and StatisticsLaw which will becomeoperative (See also, General, Iraq) within a month. 1965 Preliminarytalks began betweengovernment rep- resentativesand a ChinesePeople's Republic (CPR) June 5: Le Peuple announcedthat it would merge delegation on the details of a $28m credit to Af- with Alger Republicainlater this month, it was ghanistan. reported. July 8: Governmentrepresentatives (with Laos and June 9: Farh.at'Abbas, 'Abd al-RahmanFaris, 'Umar Yugoslavia) signed a UN agreementproviding for ibn Tfumi, 'Umar 'Aziz al-din, CommanderLarbi the right of landlockedcountries to have access to and Boualem (Bui-'Alim) Oussedik (al-5addiq) the sea. were released from house arrest, the government July 15: The World Bank decided to grant aid to disclosed. the AgriculturalBank in Kabul to pay back loans PresidentAhmad Bin Balli left for Tamanrasset for a with and will also participatein preparingand imple- meeting PresidentHamani Diori of Ni- geria to menting a number of model and experimental reportedly urge that the 4 French- projects. speaking West African states attend the forthcom- ing Afro-Asianconference. July 17: The US will increaseits financialand tech- June 11: The Dockers' Union, an affiliate of the nical assistance because of its "appreciation"of GeneralUnion of Algerian the measurestaken by the governmentto improve the Workers,requested creationof a National Port Administration. country'seconomic position, it was reported. June 14: The Information Service denied foreign July 20: The governmentapproved the construction press reports of "divergencies"in the government. of a chemicalfertilizer and power plant in Mazar- June 15: The SocialistForces Front (FFS) announced i-Sharif to be built with credits provided by the in Paris its agreementwith the FLN on govern- USSR. ment goals. July 21: Direct telephone communicationbetween June 18: Financial questions concerning royalties, Kabul, Lahoreand Rawalpindiwas inaugurated. fixing of posted prices, oil companydepreciations, July 22: West Germanyagreed to loan the govern- rates and other tax matters were settled in the ment an additionalDM 20m in economicassistance; Franco-Algerianoil talks, it was learned. DM 240m is alreadypromised. The government signed a protocol with the July 27: The Ministry of Public Health announced USSR for technicaland economiccooperation. the presence of "a form of cholera called Bltor June 19: Defense Minister Colonel Houari (Hjawa- Vebriun" in the country,but said that the disease ri) Boumedienne(Bu-Midyan), leader of the Rev- had abateddue to promptpreventative measures. olutionaryCouncil, deposed Bin Balla in a blood- July 29: The governmentsigned an agreementfor fur- less militarycoup. The new governmentwas recog- ther economic cooperationwith the USSR. The nized by Indonesia,Syria and the Chinese Peoples' terms provide for repaymentof Soviet loans over Republic (CPR). 30 yearsrather than immediatelywith no additional Nasir dispatched 2 UAR representativesto a interestbeing charged,for Soviet technicalinstruc- meeting of the RevolutionaryCouncil to: obtain tion, for the supply of cement and bitumen for assurancesof Bin Balla's safety, investigate the hydro-electricprojects and the Kabul silo and
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