Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after 115 years of French rule, with only three college graduates, no industry other than a pair of soft-drink plants, no agriculture whatever and an export trade restricted to hides and skins (goats outnumber people by better than 2 to 1). "If it were anywhere else," says an Arab diplomat in Djibouti town (pop. 140,000), "nobody would care about this godforsaken place. But because it is where it is, Djibouti matters to many, from neighbors to superpowers...
...Southern Baptist with few ties to the Jewish community. He stilled doubts by asserting that Israel should maintain control of the Golan Heights and Jewish and Christian places of worship in Jerusalem. He also pledged to continue military aid, and he promised to wage an "economic war" against the Arab states if they imposed another oil embargo...
...visit to the Middle East, the U.S. announced that it would bar sales to other countries of Israel's Kfir jets with American-built engines. The White House also canceled a shipment of concussion bombs promised to Israel by the Ford Administration. Vance came home convinced that the Arabs were more flexible than the Israelis, and he said so. In meetings with Middle East leaders, Carter got on famously with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, Jordan's King Hussein, Syria's President Hafez Assad and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd...
Jewish leaders fear that their cause is not being properly represented. Middle East diplomacy, they complain, is in the hands of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and his assistant William Quandt, a specialist in Palestinian affairs. Brzezinski is thought to be pro-Arab-perhaps unfairly-by some supporters of Israel because he was one of the authors of a 1975 Brookings report calling for Israel's withdrawal to its 1967 borders. The two Jewish aides closest to Carter, Domestic Policy Assistant Stuart Eizenstat and White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz, are not considered sufficiently attuned to the Jewish community...
...federal law guaranteeing them a share of the pipeline's riches. Environmentalists insisted that the wildest of America's frontiers be protected, its delicate balance of nature left undisturbed. Not until the spring of 1974 did the bulldozers start moving; they began then only because the Arab oil embargo pressured Congress into passing a law giving the go-ahead...