Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Damascus, Syria, 1974: Hidden KGB cameras click softly, and a secret microphone records the tender dialogue as an Arab diplomat dallies with a male paramour in the city's infamous Turkish baths. Threatened afterward with disclosure of his homosexuality, the diplomat agrees to pass information...
...course the Soviets have had their share of intelligence failures. During the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the KGB failed to detect Israeli preparations for crossing the Suez Canal, and underestimated the maneuver's importance once it was under way. In New Delhi, the resident KGB team concluded that Indira Gandhi would easily win re-election in 1977. More embarrassing was the gambit of Vladimir Rybachenko, who served in Paris as a UNESCO official. Shortly before Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Paris on a good-will visit in 1976, Rybachenko was caught receiving secret documents that described...
Israel. Mossad, its intelligence service, is very well organized, ruthless, dedicated, all but impossible to infiltrate. Excels at information gathering and counterintelligence, is weaker on political analysis. Major target: Arab countries, naturally...
...Israelis]," said one Cairo paper, "they would bargain with him over every minute detail." In an even uglier charge, another declared that "the dream of Zionism, its ambition and philosophy, is the philosophy of Nazi Hitlerism." Begin was particularly incensed by two columns in al Akhbar, the Arab world's largest paper, in which Editor Mustafa Amin compared the Israeli Premier to Shylock, the unscrupulous moneylender in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice...
...latter option is essential if King Hussein is to be enticed into the talks-a move that would weaken the thrust of criticism from Arab rejectionists that Sadat is bargaining only for himself. But Hussein faces a problem in joining the negotiations if the political talks are resumed in Jerusalem. To other Arabs it may appear that the King has tacitly recognized Israeli sovereignty over the predominantly Arab old city, which was controlled...