Word: arabism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was prepared to take that chance. He opposed the sale of modern American weaponry to the Saudis, but he was even more concerned that a package deal would set a pattern for equating U.S. aid to Israel with similar aid to Arab countries. "This would tend to weaken our special relationship," said one Israeli official, "and strengthen Arab relations with America, and that is not in Israel's interest." Dayan stopped short of saying publicly that Israel would rather give up the planes it stood to gain than see the whole package go through...
...event of war. The Saudis have assured Washington that this is not true−and there is good reason to believe them. Ground maintenance for the F-15s would be handled mostly by American technicians. Thus it would be very difficult to transfer the F-15s to other Arab states. The Saudis also insist they have no intention of basing the planes at their Tabuk airbase, which is only 125 miles from the Israeli port of Eilat. One reason is that the Saudis do not want the planes, which cost $16 million apiece, to be unnecessarily vulnerable to Israeli attack...
Remember that Arab sheik who set Beverly Hills agog with his mint-green, late baroque-kitsch mansion? Now his father, Sheik Mohammad Al-Fassi, 47, head of an international shipping company, is involved in a new episode of Arabian-Angeleno misunderstanding...
...Ghanaian. So far, the backbone of the U.N. force is composed of 627 French paratroopers based in Tyre and 690 Norwegians stationed in the eastern sector of the ceasefire line. The French are tough soldiers, the Norwegians well trained and professional. But neither unit is familiar with the Arab world or has had much fighting experience. "The only combat most of them have seen," remarks one Western military observer, "is in the movies...
Each year the ACSR considers dozens of shareholder resolutions in most of the companies in the Harvard portfolio, but there are usually only a few major issues on the proxy agenda--this year the issues are South Africa, bottle feeding, and political contributions, last year they were the Arab boycott of Israel; and South Africa. On the purely financial resolutions the ACSR may defer to the Corporation subcommittee, but on almost all important shareholder issues the ACSR considers the matter and makes a recommendation to the Corporation. Unless the ACSR's vote is too close for the Corporation to draw...