Word: arab
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...lowest level in nearly two years. Reason: although OPEC agreed last month to hold daily output to 15 million bbl., some 20 million bbl. are flooding the market each day. Among those exceeding their quotas are Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. If Iran and Iraq forge a lasting peace, analysts believe both countries could boost their production levels still more...
Until now, Israel has relied on reconnaissance aircraft and high-tech drones for its intelligence. In addition, since Arab forces took Israel by surprise in the 1973 October War, the U.S. has provided Jerusalem with top-secret satellite information to help meet its defense needs. But the Israelis complain that U.S. officials "filter" the information, omitting data that Washington deems irrelevant. The Israelis also grumble that they receive the data too late. Israel regularly petitions the U.S. for its own ground links to American satellites, but Washington refuses. Supporters of Israel blame America's stinginess with its data for Israel...
...member P.L.O. working group is forging a new political program that, among other things, would endorse U.N. Resolution 181. Known as the Partition Plan and adopted in 1947, the year before Israel was founded, it called for Palestine to be divided into two states, one Jewish, one Arab. By accepting the resolution, albeit 41 years after it was initially offered, the P.L.O. for the first time would be acknowledging Israel's legal right to statehood. As one of the P.L.O.'s draft proposals puts it, "The Palestinian people do not desire the annihilation of the state of Israel. Rather, they...
Israeli officials first glimpsed this latest strategy last month when plainclothes agents of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency, arrested Faisal Husseini, the pro-P.L.O. head of the Arab Studies Society. In his East Jerusalem office they allegedly found a four-page plan that calls for the declaration of an independent Palestinian state with Arafat as its President. The new state would then seek peace negotiations with Israel...
Though the arrests dealt a blow to Fatah's organization in the occupied territories, the uprising showed no signs of letting up. Last week's rioting, the worst in six months, left three Palestinians dead, including a nine-year- old Arab girl, and some 300 injured, many of them from beatings. The Palestinian death toll after nine months of unrest...