Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gradual drift by Egypt toward rapprochement with the Arab world, and he expects Israel to become more nervous about its own security and thus less willing to negotiate. He also fears that if the talks do not succeed, they will eventually be superseded by something else-another Saudi Arabian peace plan, a Western European initiative, or even a Soviet proposal-that would be less to Washington's liking...
...pair of handsome Arabian horses, a chestnut and a gray, are the Montanas' nearest neighbors and two of their closest friends. When the football year is out (fearing injury, Joe won't ride in season), Cass and Joe can be seen galloping through the buckbrush up and down the peninsula hills, sometimes clear to the ocean six miles off on the horizon. Joe has a great fondness for animals. The two obstreperous dachshunds, Broadway (a tribute to Namath) and Bosley (after Charlie's Angels' major domo) reside underfoot. Says Cass: "Joe will just sit here...
...classics for discoveries made during the unmanned Voyager spacecrafts' flybys of Saturn's moons. Craters on Mimas, for example, will be named for characters from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur; the recently photographed fissures on Enceladus, for those from the Arabian Nights; features on Tethys, for those from Homer's Odyssey. Yet even so seemingly innocuous a task can bog down in politics. The Soviets like to name newly discovered asteroids after revolutionary heroes. Last summer U.S. and West European astronomers countered by naming one after dissident Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov...
...over the presence of Syrian SA-6 missiles in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Another was the failure of last month's Arab League summit in Fez, Morocco, at which Syria led the hard-line attack on the eight-point Middle East peace plan proposed by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd...
...center of the squabbling at Fez, where Morocco's King Hassan II played host, was the eight-point peace proposal outlined last August by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd. The plan offers tacit recognition of Israel's right to exist in exchange for, among other things, a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Bitterly opposed by the Israelis, the plan was conceived by the cautious Saudis to achieve an Arab consensus...