Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crack the hard nuts that have to be cracked So last week Vance flew in and it of the familiar way stations of Middle Eastern diplomacy-Alexandria Beirut, Damascus ... En route he heard a revised and promising version of a formula for indirect negotiations between Israel and the Arabs-but in almost no time at all the region's quarreling states proved that this solution would not be acceptable. Thus by week's end, with his eleven-day trip mostly over, all that the top U .S. envoy could say with certainty about Middle East nutcracking was that...
...Although he was limping slightly because of a calf muscle he had pulled the previous day in a tennis game with World Bank President Robert McNamara, he headed directly for Sadat's lavish four-story seaside villa. As Vance approached, Sadat began opening his arms for the traditional Arab embrace with which he used to greet Henry Kissinger; he quickly checked himself when the very reserved American thrust forward his arm for a handshake...
Among the casualties on the Libyan side, according to reports circulating in the Arab world, were three Russians killed and one wounded among the estimated 1,500 Soviet technicians manning the radar equipment with which Moscow has provided Gaddafi. Cairo claimed to be holding 42 Libyan prisoners; Tripoli said it had captured 60 Egyptians. The Egyptians admitted the loss of two planes, one of which was photographed by the gleeful Libyans, but outside sources monitoring the war counted seven Egyptian planes downed...
Pity Prince Saud al-Faisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia and a possible future king. One among several Arab potentates who have been eying the U.S. real estate market lately, he wanted to have a Manhattan pied-a-terre. Saud's choice was a twelve-room, $600,000 coop apartment on Park Avenue owned by Bruce A. Norris, president of the Detroit Red Wings. Alas, it was not to be. After months of meetings, the other tenants decided not to accept Saud as a co-owner-because of their fear of possible political violence if he moved in. Said...
...public climate facing the industry is a new series of television ads sponsored by a feisty anti-oil consumer group called the Energy Action Committee, whose chief financial backer is Actor Paul Newman. One sequence portrays a U.S. oil executive mugging an American consumer, while disguised in a flowing Arab burnoose. The spot's message: "We'd better break up the oil monopoly before it breaks...