Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where Arab and Jewish diplomats jostled with all the rest to see him, John Paul showed his intellectual side, his 61-minute speech ranged over a variety of topics tied together tightly by sequential reasoning. The headline-catching bits ? an assertion that overall peace in the Middle East must include "a just settlement of the Palestinian question," a call for a "special statute" to assure the preservation of Jerusalem as a city holy to the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths ? were really incidental notes...
Even after we have seen it, the act of bringing a Pope in the front door of the White House just like he was an Arab with oil or a state chairman with delegates is nothing short of a miracle...
...trip to Damascus, Sadat now suddenly sent him in a presidential jet bearing personal messages to the P.L.O. chief and to Syrian President Hafez Assad. Sadat's bizarre action left diplomatic observers puzzled, as Jackson was a newcomer to Middle East politics, and there were more appropriate, Arab candidates at hand. Jackson, nevertheless, left immediately for Beirut, where he briefed Arafat on Sadat's proposal: cessation of P.L.O. hostilities against Israel in the hope of winning Israeli recognition. Arafat immediately called a meeting of the P.L.O. Central Council for a verdict. "I don't need advice from...
...latest turmoil in the gold and currency markets shook the Belgrade meeting like an Adriatic earthquake. The moneymen hovered over telex machines to catch the latest gold fixings and dollar-mark exchange rates, and swapped anxious rumors. Inter-continental Arab finance ministers ducked quietly into Bill Miller's first-floor suite at the Inter-continental Hotel to get his assurances that the dollar would be defended. Reported TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer: "An undercurrent of fear and confusion about what has been happening on the money markets ran through the corridors of the modern Sava Center, where the I.M.F. sessions...
...come back for more money, will you? Once we do it and help you, don't come back a second time." Well, I'd rather not go to Washington at all; I'd rather figure out another way. If I found a rich Arab, I'd take him in a minute and under some pretty tough conditions. I say to Miller and group: "Hey, don't get mad at me, I'm new here too." They reply: "Geez, we wish you'd go away. You picked a lousy time to start going bankrupt...