Word: arab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While Arab kills Arab in a never ending orgy of fratricide in what once was Lebanon, Israel opens her border and treats the sick and wounded, feeds the hungry and offers work to Lebanese Christians and Moslems alike...
...Israeli government has shown little enthusiasm for Zayad and his gadfly coalition of Communists, Christians and Moslems. "When he was elected, we said to ourselves that we would just have to make the best of it," says Shmuel Toledano, the Israeli government's chief expert on local Arab affairs. "Our assessment of Nazareth, after nine months of Zayad, is that things are no better today than they were before...
...effect of Zayad's campaign has been to polarize Nazarenes into a self-conscious Arab minority, and this worries some of Zayad's townspeople almost as much as it bothers Jerusalem. "We are Arabs, yes," says Restaurant Owner Abu Nassir, a Catholic, "but we are Israelis too. For 28 years we have lived in harmony with the government. What Zayad is doing is dangerous. You cannot fight the government and expect to live in peace...
...report a consensus: the nation still lacks a "comprehensive, long-range, understandable energy policy." Though that is a charge that few Republicans could or would dispute, energy probably will not be much of an issue in the coming campaign. In the 33 months since the shock of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, public concern about that issue has slid from white-hot worry to detached interest to what now seems to be near total apathy. A recent Gallup poll indicates that only 2% of the voting population regards energy as the most pressing national problem, above such other matters...
...crude, and the trend appears unlikely to be reversed. Imported oil presently supplies an astonishing 41% of U.S. needs, v. 29% before the embargo. And because Canada and Venezuela have been cutting down on oil exports, almost all of the recent increase in U.S. needs has been supplied by Arab countries; their shipments to the U.S. have doubled in the past year and now account for more than 12% of American consumption...