Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also new to the U.N. was Correspondent Lee Griggs, who has worked abroad for 17 years and served as Beirut bureau chief during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. He did a great deal of his reporting last week on the run, buttonholing delegates as they rushed from one meeting to another "to find out what they really thought, as opposed to what they were saying on the record...
...produced some mighty big zigs and zags. In the process ?deliberately or not?he also caused the quickest, deepest chill in years between a U.S. Administration and the Israelis and American Jewry. By week's end the frost had melted?a little. More important, Israel, the U.S., the Arab states and the Soviet Union were close to agreement in principle on a formula that might, with a little bit of luck, allow the Geneva conference to meet this year after all. As Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy put it, "Things are moving." Or, in Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
...Arabs, of course, were dismayed by the agreement. Carter and Vance immediately began testing the working paper on Arab diplomats, including Egypt's Ismail Fahmy and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. The U.S. strategy was to discuss the working-paper provisions along with other American proposals that the Israelis had not agreed to, in hopes that Arab reaction might lead to further refinements of a formula for Geneva. Apparently the approach worked. As one leading Arab diplomat told TIME, "There have been more pluses than minuses for us in these sessions...
...series of negotiations was to move speedily and toughly, if necessary, to end a stalemate. Carter's view of the Middle East after nine months in office is that the area is in an explosive, "unsafe situation" of no war, no peace that endangers the domestic political situation of Arab moderates like Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and heightens the possibility of another oil embargo. Settlement is imperative now, as Carter told the U.N. last week, because "of all the regional conflicts in the world, none holds more menace." In the U.S. view, three problems have to be settled somehow?...
...entries in the bulging lexicon of international diplomacy are so freighted with emotion and precise, almost lapidary meaning as the code words and phrases dealing with the Arab-Israeli dispute. As Jimmy Carter has learned, a slip in the use of the Middle East's special shorthand can cause rumblings round the world. Some key terms...