Word: arab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Entebbe, the original skyjackers were reinforced by four men, probably Arabs, carrying submachine guns, rifles, a Beretta pistol and dynamite. Passengers and crew were herded into a seldom-used terminal; later, Israelis were separated from the others when one of the terrorists barked in English, "Israelis to the right." Via Radio Uganda, the skyjackers proclaimed that they were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Marxist, zealously anti-Israel fedayeen group led by Dr. George Habash. But the Popular Front's Beirut headquarters disowned them, and the 21-nation Arab League, at its Cairo meeting...
...Neutral. Moreover, there was the increasingly alarming role played by Amin, who has been a vociferous champion of Arab causes since 1972, when he abruptly severed relations with Israel. (In return, Uganda has received generous financial aid from such Arab states as Libya, Kuwait and Algeria.) From the time the skyjackers landed at Entebbe, Amin had scarcely acted like a neutral participant in the drama. He described the skyjackers' demands as "very reasonable," and advised the Israeli hostages to "tell your government to solve the Palestinian problem...
...first of Ankori's two Summer School courses deals almost exclusively with the history of Arab-Israeli conflict. The second concentrates on Palestinian history...
...Cairo, meanwhile, the Arab League met again to discuss the Pan-Arab peace-keeping force, which should eventually number 6,000, and voted it a budget of $12 million for the next six months. The Arab League Secretary-General, Mahmoud Riad of Egypt, said that he had ordered a Sudanese contingent to go directly to Beirut and that Somali and Saudi Arabian units would be arriving shortly in Lebanon...
...third caucus over Lebanon was called by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who summoned the ambassadors from four Arab capitals to Paris for a meeting last week. Joining the group was Talcott Seeyle, 54, a longtime Arabist and former ambassador to Tunisia, whom President Ford appointed "special representative" to Lebanon after the murder of Ambassador Francis E. Meloy Jr. (TIME, June 28). The fact that Ford named Seeyle special representative instead of ambassador led to speculation that Washington intended to shut down its embassy in Beirut. White House officials said it was simply a means of circumventing the nomination process...