Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exceeded demand by 400%, according to some estimates, and if newly discovered deposits in Australia had been made available to the world market, demand would have been unlikely to catch up with supply until the early 1980s. As it happened, Australia embargoed uranium exports until last August, and the Arab oil embargo of 1973 caused a huge acceleration of demand for uranium from nuclear-power plants around the world, so prices might have gone up anyway. Meanwhile, the cartel swung into operation...
...Cement mixers rather than armored vehicles, rumble through the streets. The port has been restored to 50% of prewar capacity and once again trucks rattle off the piers and up the winding mountain roads toward delivery points throughout the Persian Gulf. Beirut's airport, the busiest in the Arab world (400 weekly flights) before it was shut down by artillery fire, has reopened and handles about 75% of its old traffic volume. The industrial district of Mekhalles, badly damaged during the 52-day siege of the adjoining Palestinian camp of Tel Zaatar, is again turning out everything from office...
Even by modest estimates, some $5 billion will be required for full recovery in Lebanon, and such funds have been slow in coming. The first-step port reconstruction was financed by a $69 million U.S. grant. Lebanon's Arab neighbors, who bankrolled much of the fighting, have chosen to underwrite a far lesser share of the bill for peace. "The money in hand is a few swallows," an official told TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis. "It doesn't make a spring...
...mystique of socialism - the dominant ideology of the Third World - has given the Russians close ties there. But somehow the Russians have trouble enlarging their footholds. They seem unpopular nearly everywhere they go. In the Middle East, where they once threatened to become the Big Brother of the Arab world, the Soviets have been kicked out of Egypt; relations with both Syria and Iraq have chilled. Despite ample military aid to leftists in Mozambique, Angola and elsewhere, they are not yet a viable power in Africa. Somalia, once Moscow's most compliant ally on the continent, is gradually rejecting...
...bloc, granted the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status at I.L.O. meetings. That prompted then-U.S. Labor Secretary John Dunlop to boycott one I.L.O. meeting. Later, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger voiced concern over the "increasing politicization" of the I.L.O. One example: hasty condemnation of Israel for supposedly mistreating Arab workers in occupied territory. Such lack of due process, said Kissinger, is "in utter disregard of the established procedures and machinery, and is gravely damaging the I.L.O. and its capacity to pursue its objectives in the human-rights field." On Nov. 5, 1975, he wrote a letter to Director General...