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...been moving to assure strong backing at home for Reagan's initiative. While it was being drafted, he consulted interested parties ranging from former Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro to AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland. Shultz continued the effort last week, calling in both Jewish-American and Arab-American leaders...
...problem. The laborious diplomacy since the October War had to be brought to some conclusion. Sadat therefore asked that I stay in the Middle East until the negotiations had either succeeded or failed. A disengagement agreement, in his view, was essential to turn a new page in Arab-American relations and give momentum to the peace process with Israel. To demonstrate his sincerity, Sadat gave himself a deadline. He had scheduled a trip around the Arab world starting the following Friday, Jan. 18. He hoped to complete the agreement before then. In that case he would urge...
Yamani opened his stay by attending a board meeting of the Arab-American Oil Company in San Francisco. The company is "for all practical purposes a Saudi Arabian company" and the meeting was Yamani's principal reason for visiting the U.S. a government source, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday...
...financial constraints imposed... by their white members and supporters." The implication that Jordan and Hooks had been subverted by Jewish donations was oddly timed, because it became clear last week that some black organizations are getting Arab cash. Jackson's PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) acknowledged receiving an $8,000 contribution from a group that is called the Association of Arab-American University Graduates...
...Arab Americans have long been among the nation's least visible and vocal minorities. Al Amen, an Arab community activist in Dearborn, Mich., says he could not get a job at a local community college because, in the words of a college official: "You're not black, you're not white, and you don't speak Spanish." He complains that Arab Americans, contemptuously called "camel jockeys," are never given time off for Islamic holidays. Arab Americans are relatively small in number-between 1 million and 1.5 million -and they are dispersed in the nation and split...