Word: arab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fist pounding, Brezhnev conceded that a new SALT accord, based on the 1974 Vladivostok agreement, was still "quite attainable." If that was achieved, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could "move forward to a mutual reduction of armaments." Brezhnev also sketched out a proposal for gradual Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories and hinted that the Russians might be receptive to Carter's proposal to limit the international arms trade...
Comparing them to the American women I was travelling with brought to mind an article I had read on the attitudes of Arab men toward Western women. The writer claimed that Arab men generally see them as, in a word, tramps; maybe candidates for seduction but never marriage. The men regarded only their own women as feminine and worthy of respect and matrimony. But seeing these women at the airport I could not help but wonder if this praise was earned by any virtue beyond complete docility...
Western influences have penetrated Tunisia far more than most Arab countries, affecting the lives of its males more than of its females...
This environment affects the way Tunisian men see Western women. Female tourists in Tunisia often encounter the behavior that stereotypes of Arab men promise them. A conversation that starts in a friendly tone frequently ends with the woman abruptly walking away, or even shouting to be left alone. Tunisian men often cannot cope with women not submitting to their will, and a polite "no" from a Western woman is akin in this respect to the rebellion of an adulterous wife...
Carter's clarifying statement that in a settlement Israel should withdraw to the 1967 borders with only "minor alterations" (a favorite Arab code word) of the frontiers was almost more than Cairo had dared hope for. Although the Egyptians insist upon regaining all of Sinai, they believe that some modifications along the border between the West Bank and Israel are necessary where villages were divided by the 1949 armistice lines...