Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dayan, hero of the Six-Day War and now Begin's Foreign Minister, last week flatly rejected what he called "partition" of the West Bank. Begin insists that the West Bank is negotiable, but his Likud political faction has been more amenable to Israeli settlements on that occupied Arab territory than the previous government...
Accordingly, Saudi Arabia is emerging from decades of isolation to exercise a powerful influence for stability in the Middle East, and is becoming the closest and most helpful ally of the U.S. among the Arab nations. Economically, the Saudis demonstrated their clout last week by forcing the majority of the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to forgo a scheduled 5% hike in oil prices. In December the Saudis split OPEC by refusing to go along with its decision to raise prices by 10% on Jan. 1 and another 5% on July 1; instead, the Saudis...
...barren territory is located on the western shore of the 17-mile-wide strait called Bab el Mandeb ("gate of sorrows" in Arabic), which links the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean. More than 70 ships, including many oil tankers, pass through the strait every day, to and from the southern end of the Suez Canal. Moderate Arab states bordering the Red Sea-Egypt, Sudan and Saudi Arabia-fear that the Soviet Union, already well established on the eastern side of the strait in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, may have designs on Djibouti in a move...
...celebrate in a city that has 80,000 job seekers for only 10,000 jobs. French troops turned over a few barracks to the Djibouti army, but only after removing air conditioners, overhead fans and even fuses in an unnecessary show of Gallic arrogance. Some of the decrepit, stone, Arab-style buildings downtown got a new coat of whitewash, and a few strings of colored lights went up. But five days before the festivities no flags of the new republic were in evidence. They were being made in France and would not arrive until the last minute...
...standards and who is more adept at exploiting them. In this, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione, a canny tortoise, has at least drawn even with the Bunnies of Hugh Hefner, whose bigger but long overextended Playboy empire is in trouble. Only Hefner's London gambling clubs, which attract rich Arab bettors, are an unabashed success. The IRS is also questioning whether Hefner's high living expenses ($3 million in 1976) are deductible...