Word: arab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also showed our strength at recent Arab summits [Riyadh and Cairo], whose resolutions not only reaffirmed that the P.L.O. was the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, but developed that idea by emphasizing the right of the Palestinian people to establish an independent state in their homeland. These are major victories...
...will cooperate with all our Arab brothers and all our allies. But the degree of support given us by our allies is not identical. We accept from each one the degree of support he gives our cause. Naturally, we cannot oblige others to support us exactly according to our wishes and thoughts...
...Sadat predicts a 1977 Geneva Conference to reach an Arab-Israel settlement. Will the P.L.O. attend...
...sharp decline through most of the year, dropping from $2.03 in January to $1.66 last week. Moreover, foreign debts are falling due. For example, about $1.6 billion must be paid this month on an earlier loan from the Group of Ten (industrial nations). Britain's creditors, including Arab sheiks and international bankers, have grown increasingly skeptical about its ability to pay its way. Thus, after Whitehall applied for a loan in September, the IMF decided it was time to impose stiff requirements as a condition for its investment...
Three years ago, Libya's ascetic, rabidly anti-Western President Muammar Gaddafi flew into a rage about a mild satire of himself printed by the Turin daily La Stampa. He threatened to have Fiat, the Italian megacompany that owns La Stampa, put on the Arab boycott list unless it fired the paper's Jewish editor, Arrigo Levi. Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli stood by Levi, and the matter was forgotten. Time and oil money, however, can change the political-economic balance of power, and last week Levi had a new story to print. Agnelli announced that he is taking...