Word: arab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less than a year ago, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was under severe attack from "rejectionist" Arabs for signing the second Sinai accord with Israel. Now that there is new talk about peace initiatives in the Middle East, the rejectionists have become isolated, and Sadat has emerged anew as a moderate Arab statesman with clout. At home, he feels secure enough to have authorized the formation of political parties. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, Sadat declared that he was ready to sign a formal document ending the state of belligerency with Israel...
...explained. Besides, Sadat now considers Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy outmoded. He wants a full-scale conference in Geneva next year of all the "confrontation countries" and the Palestinians to deal with what he considers the central issue: Israel's return of occupied territory in exchange for Arab recognition. "For God's sake," he said, "don't get lost on side issues like the [Arab] boycott. Solve the big issue and you solve the boycott." Sadat has ended a feud with President Hafez Assad over Syria's intervention in Lebanon, but Egypt's relations with...
Mixed Feelings. The Syrian forces are the spearhead of a pan-Arab army that will eventually reach 30,000 men. Other Arab League nations, including the Sudan and Saudi Arabia, have contributed troops to the Lebanese peace-keeping force. But at summit meetings in Riyadh and Cairo (TIME, Nov. 8), an understanding was reached that the largest contingent of the "Arab Security Force" would be the Syrian brigades sent into Lebanon earlier this year by President Hafez Assad. Some Arab leaders had mixed feelings about so large a Syrian force in Lebanon; they were alarmed by the dominant Syrian presence...
...natural human right that had long been denied them in the U.S.S.R. Many Russian Jews have been put off by reports of difficult conditions for refugees in Israel. Others are plainly fearful of subjecting themselves and their children to the ever present danger of war with the Arab world. Asked one would-be U.S. immigrant from the Soviet Union: "After having suffered so much, don't we have a right to live peacefully in America...
Once there was Beau Geste featuring Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward and la gloire. Now there will be a Chinese priest from Ireland named Father Shapiro, a black White Russian called Booker T. Dostoevsky and a rampaging Arab called Abdul the Disgusting. The ridiculous new version, The Last Remake of Beau Geste, stars Michael York in the title role, Marty Feldman as his twin brother Digby and Ann-Margret as the pair's libidinous stepmother. For the skew-eyed Feldman, who co-wrote the script, The Last Remake offers his first chance to play director as well...