Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...countries church leaders have alleged that government takeover of schools is the result of Arab pressures to turn those countries into Muslim states. This fear is at the heart of the church-state conflict in Uganda...
...slightly askew. Director Moshe Mizrahi's film is so unashamedly a vehicle for a grand old actress that the award might better have been made by Motor Trend magazine. Signoret is marvelous as the lovable old baggage. Samy Ben Youb is luminous as Momo, the 14-year-old Arab boy who sticks with Madame Rosa to the end. Claude Dauphin is gallant as the indomitable old doctor who tends Rosa, and who is himself so rickety that he must be carried up to her room when he makes his house calls...
...plume of a fortyish British historian, political writer and playwright-which adds spice to his first political thriller right from page 1. It is the story of an Orwellian attempt (in 1981) to turn Britain into a fascist state, led by a fanatical Muslim group riding high on Arab oil and abetted by some of England's leading politicians. The conspiracy is defused by Bill Ellison, a brilliant Fleet Street digger whose investigative team resembles the London Sunday Times's muckraking groups. Salisbury gives his improbable tale crackling credibility-and is already working on a sequel...
...found Ethiopia strategic because its port of Massawa bordered on the Red Sea, providing U.S. nuclear submarines with a friendly port, so did the Israelis--for different reasons. Seeing Nasser commit 70,000 men into what is now the Democratic anti-monarchists, fearing the further spread of Arab influence and ever aware of the importance of maintaining an open seaway from the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, the Israelis sent police-military advisers to Ethiopia to combat the Moslem independence group in Eritrea. At the same time the rebel Eritreans received support from Egypt, Syria...
...Israeli advance to the Suez in 1973, the Iranians and Saudis abandoned their previous policies and united to create the oil embargo and later to form the oil cartel. At the same time the Egyptians helped to seek an accommodation with North Yemen--the Arab Republic of Yemen, which subsequently sought relations with the Saudis. But Southern Yemen splintered and set up a Marxist-Leninist regime--The Democratic Republic of Yemen...