Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minister Moshe Dayan's visit to Washington this week, the statement was clearly intended as a warning to Israel not to put any more roadblocks along the way to Geneva. President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance will discuss reconvening the peace parley with both Dayan and Arab foreign ministers coming to the U.S. for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly...
...rare show of unanimity, 21 Foreign Ministers of the Arab League last week adopted in Cairo what one Western diplomat called "the last hurrah for the moderates." He meant an eight-point working paper that Arab delegates will discuss at the U.N. as the basis for further resolutions. The paper states that a "just and durable peace in the Middle East" depends on the fulfillment of two basic principles: 1) Israel must withdraw from Arab territories occupied during the 1967 war, including East Jerusalem, and 2) the Palestinians have a right to return to their place of origin, to self...
There was nothing essentially new in the Arab League position, which was not regarded as moderate in Israel. Nonetheless, some observers of the meeting note that the wording of the paper could have been far stronger. Syria's Foreign Minister, Abdel Halim Khaddam, argued that the delegates should propose Israel's expulsion from the U.N. and the adoption of sanctions against the Jewish state. But even the "rejectionist" Iraqis admitted that it was not practical to crack down hard on the Israelis. Thus they backed the moderate stance of Egypt, which was subtly supported by Saudi Arabia, whose...
...able to say, 'You see, we are not trying to sabotage you. We are helping you in every way that we can.' What better proof can he have than that the Syrian move for a tough, no-compromise line was overruled by the Arab Foreign Ministers themselves?" Although they do not accept all its provisions, Administration officials described the working paper as "very helpful...
Detroit engineers long shunned diesels for cars because of their comparatively sluggish performance, noise and weight. But the energy crisis that started with the Arab oil embargo of 1973 caused GM designers to take another look. The diesel gets anywhere from 15% to 25% more miles per gal. than a gasoline-powered engine. Besides that, diesel fuel, which is essentially highly refined fuel oil, can cost as much as 10? per gal. less at the pump than regular gasoline depending on the area of the country. And the diesel engine, which has no spark plugs or distributor points, requires less...