Word: arab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration is primarily one of emphasis; for example, President Ford declared just last month that the U.S. "will remain the ultimate guarantor of Israel's freedom." With their positions apparently so close, if Ford and Carter both receive their parties' nominations, U.S. diplomacy in the Israeli-Arab dispute may not-as conventional wisdom has it-have to take a holiday and avoid new initiatives until after the November voting...
Predictably, Lebanon's leftists were enraged. Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt called a one-day general strike in Beirut that kept people off the streets and closed the few shops that had not already been shuttered by the incessant street fighting. He also requested that other Arab states "interfere" in order to end the Syrian intervention. This was seconded by the Palestine Liberation Organization, which also managed to accuse Washington of being behind Assad's move...
Egypt too denounced Assad, thus further chilling the already frigid relations between Cairo and Damascus. In a letter to the Arab League, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy accused Syria of preparing "bloody butcheries that are in reality a war of genocide." Fahmy, like Jumblatt and the P.L.O., called for joint action by other Arab states to get Syrian troops out of Lebanon. In Cairo, Arab students protesting the intervention occupied the Syrian embassy for three hours; in Moscow, Arabs demonstrated in front of the Syrian mission...
...boom has already wiped outmost vestiges of the deep downturn that hit the industry about the time of the Arab oil embargo in late 1973. At the bottom of the slide early last year, about one-fifth of the industry's work force-some 273,000 assemblers, draftsmen, accountants, middle managers -were out of work. Now auto joblessness is down to 30,000 and still dropping. Even so, the industry cannot produce the most popular models fast enough to satisfy demand. Inventories that for some makes hit a 150-day supply in early 1975 are now down...
...Jordanian passport. The idea of such a confederation might sound unrealistic, but then so have all the attempts of the past to find a solution. It is a clash between two societies, one emerging from a feudalistic framework and the other deeply rooted in democratic principles. When Jewish and Arab leaders meet, it is like a meeting between sea fish and gefilte fish. For us, democracy is a daily exercise; for the Arabs, democracy threatens to cause a social transformation. Indeed, a social revolution is taking place in the West Bank, where the Israeli-sponsored elections recently established a young...