Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Departing Africa for the Middle East, the tour landed in Saudi Arabia for a session with Crown Prince Fahd at his working palace in Riyadh. Sipping bitter cardamom tea, the de facto head of state stressed his country's role as a moderating influence in the Arab world and spoke of its long friendship with the U.S. But the Prince left little doubt that the friendship would be reappraised if Congress denied the Saudis the F-15 fighter-bombers that he claims to need for national defense...
...Israelis have two choices to eliminate Palestinian terrorism. The first is to kill every Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and in other Arab countries as well as anywhere else in the world. The second is to return the West Bank and other occupied lands to their rightful owners, and let the Palestinians have their independence under the eyes of the Israelis, who can watch them...
Jordan's move seemed to be based on two White House fears: 1) that Lance might be indicted for his activities as a Georgia country banker before he joined the Carter Administration; 2) that the revelations of his recent dealings with Arab investors could mean that they were trying to buy influence...
Friday, April 7: Lecture--The Background and Implications of the Lebanese Crisis for Arab-Israeli Peace, Sherman Teichman Lewis Hall Lounge...
There were reports that soldiers harassed Palestinians in at least five villages near Ramallah, a large Arab town (pop. 20,000) north of Jerusalem. The troops would move into a village after dark and round up all males above the age of 13, then force them to stand in the street or do exercises for hours at a time. On at least one occasion, a group of 100 men were taken to the local military headquarters to pick weeds for most of the night. "If we didn't move fast enough," reported a 17-year-old student from...