Word: arab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the U.S. got, claims the intelligence source, was something above and beyond what might have been expected in return for the $1 billion plus in overt aid paid to Jordan during the past 20 years. Hussein is said to have given the U.S. valuable entree to Arab intelligence and counterintelligence circles. Jordan also remained a consistently moderate enclave in an increasingly radical Arab world. Even the White House last week accurately praised Hussein for playing "a constructive role in reducing tensions in the Middle East." If the fact that Hussein was being paid privately had become known, argues...
...southern end of the peninsula, the deserted Arab fishing village of El Tur is being actively exploited for what have proved to be rich oil reserves. Despite a public declaration from Washington last week that such activity is illegal, Israel is determinedly searching for oil to replace what it lost a year ago when the Abu Rudeis fields to the north were handed back to Egypt. Exploration has already led to conflicts, since other oil teams under Egyptian contracts are also working there. Israeli naval crews last fall shot at equipment owned by Amoco to keep that American company from...
...basically the same -except for Lebanon, where he concentrated almost exclusively on the internal problems of that war-torn country. In Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria, he was the persistent interlocutor, running through his list of prepared questions in an attempt to discover new subtleties in the Arab and Israeli positions. How much occupied territory, for example, should Israel relinquish? When and how ought the Geneva talks to be reconvened? What role should the United Nations play? What about the Palestinians' participation at the talks and the shape of an eventual political entity for them...
...expected to sit down with a P.L.O. delegation so long as the P.L.O. covenant explicitly rejects Israel's right to exist. But Israeli officials also told the Secretary that they would tolerate Palestinians at the bargaining table if they were there as part of a Jordanian or united Arab delegation. The proposed confederation would seem to meet these demands. There is also the chance that the P.L.O. will soon drop the most offensive passages from its covenant; in his meeting with Vance, Sadat said he would press moderate P.L.O. leaders to revise the document when the Palestinian National Council...
...must be allowed to live within defensible borders." While U.N. resolutions also insist that Israel is entitled to "secure" frontiers, there has been no consensus on what constitutes security. The Israelis' meaning has generally been indicated by the pattern of their settlements in the occupied lands: the former Arab sector of Jerusalem has been annexed and declared Israel's undivided capital; 32 Israeli villages now flourish on the West Bank of the Jordan, and most Israeli leaders insist on retaining that river as their eastern border; Israeli settlements have begun mushrooming in the Sinai...