Word: abu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some success. Several new housing cities are rising alongside the Suez Canal as part of a rebuilding program that goes hand in hand with canal renovations: Faisal City, named for the late King of Saudi Arabia; Sabah City for the Sheik of Kuwait; Zayed City in honor of Abu Dhabi's Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al Nahayan...
Outside Cairo, Sadat's power base includes the 'umdas, or mayors, of rural villages; bred in the Nile Delta village of Mit Abu el Kom, Sadat is as comfortable with local mayors as he is with sophisticated city dwellers. In fact, Sadat functions as if Egypt were one big Mit Abu el Kom and he the great 'umda. Sadat has pretty much neutralized the once-mighty Arab Socialist Union, which Nasser established as Egypt's only political party. He uses the A.S.U. only as a sounding board of grass roots opinion; membership is no longer mandatory...
...clearly antiCommunist, which were neutralist in foreign policy, with a general implication that they were also underdeveloped economically and usually not of the white race. A later euphemism was the L.D.C.s-the less developed countries. (A grammatical purist might object that all of the countries in the world except Abu Dhabi, which has the highest real income per capita, are by definition L.D.C.s.) Now, as the number of countries on earth has kept increasing and as the disparities in resources become more and more spectacular, people are speaking of a Fourth World, meaning Bangladesh, India, Uganda and many others deep...
...October War to spare Egypt the onus of signing a peace treaty with Israel, and yet create a situation in which both sides would renounce the use of force for an indefinite period. For something less even than this already dubious possibility, Israel was supposed to surrender the Abu Rudeis oil fields, which provide the country with nearly half of its requisite oil supply, and the Gidi and Mitla passes, natural fortifications essential for Israel to ward off a surprise attack like the Egyptian canal crossing of October...
...primarily involving a second-stage military disentanglement. He wanted major pullbacks of Israeli forces in the Sinai, which would allow Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal. Israel was willing to withdraw from the strategic Giddi and Mitla passes in the Sinai (see map page 14) and also from the Abu Rudeis oilfields, which have been pumping Egyptian oil for Israel since they were captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. In return, however...