Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During talks with the Shah at cream-colored Saadabad Palace, Carter played down his interest in human rights, dwelling instead on Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, Iran's desire to buy 400 U.S. combat fighters and American efforts to curb oil imports. They agreed on basic terms for the sale of six to eight nuclear reactors to Iran and to do what they can to end the war between Somalia and Ethiopia. That night Carter and the Shah, their wives and another visitor, Jordan's King Hussein, celebrated the new year at Tehran's Niavaran Palace...
Over breakfast the next morning, Carter sounded out Hussein about prospects for Arab-Israeli peace. Hussein fears that negotiations between Jerusalem and Cairo could founder unless Carter persuades the Israelis to permit self-determination for the Palestinians, at least some time in the future. Carter will explore the issue further when he meets on Wednesday for an hour or two with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at Aswan-a stopover that was unexpectedly added to his schedule during the weekend (see WORLD...
...negotiators are at a bureaucratic level, which guarantees that no significant progress could be made until Premier Begin and President Sadat had met in Ismailia. But the mere presence of Israeli diplomats in Cairo has lent itself to the symbolic manifestations of public feeling so dear to the Arab heart; the massive demonstrations are significant whether they are spontaneous or government-sponsored. Two great peoples have met again as equals. Through the millennia both have suffered and endured; both have been obsessed with permanence, the Egyptians in architecture and the Jews in moral law. Both have now embarked...
Before leaving on his private jet for last week's price-setting meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Venezuela, Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani picked up his Arab worry beads to take them along. He could have left them at home. During the two-day session at the beach resort of Caraballeda outside Caracas, Yamani gave his fellow oil ministers a tough display of Saudi Arabian power in oil politics. Arguing that the international economy is too weak and world oil supplies too high to support an increase over the current $12.70 per bbl. price...
...oversupply has been caused primarily by the arrival of oil on the market from new North Sea, Alaskan and Mexican wells. Those three areas are now producing an estimated 2 million bbl. per day?precisely the amount of the current surplus. Oil Minister Mani Said Utaiba of the United Arab Emirates admitted at the conference: "We can't talk about increasing prices because there are too many barrels of oil every day in the market. If we increase the price, we won't be able to sell...