Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the responsibility of advising the Harvard Corporation on social issues regarding the Harvard portfolio. In the past year, the ACSR has advised the Corporation on 47 different proxy issues carrying social implications and has attempted to define an acceptable general position for Harvard to take on both the Arab boycott and South Africa questions. In only one instance out of 47 did the Harvard Corporation totally break with the ACSR, by voting Harvard's shares against a resolution we had been in favor of by a very slim margin. On the whole, then, the Harvard Corporation takes the ACSR...
...part of a complex plot concocted by Israeli intelligence agents. Its purpose: to disguise a secret Israeli purchase of much-needed uranium for its French-built nuclear reactor at Dimona in the Negev Desert; an overt purchase might have pushed the Soviet Union into supplying nuclear arms to the Arab states. The Scheersberg A, which is still in service as a tramp steamer under the name Kerkyra, was secretly owned at the time of the uranium caper by the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. It was one of three ships (another was called the Vita) that Israel used in the late...
...keep their previous citizenship, they may. We are not going to force ours on them. They can have complete cultural autonomy and social and economic advancement, living in their homes. This is their homeland-living together with us. What is wrong with a Jewish majority living together with an Arab minority in peace, in human dignity, in equality of rights? I believe that we can live together. It is not an occupied country as people understand that horrible term. We let them live in their homeland...
...changed his name to Aerbel and now lives in Herzliya, was a member of an Israeli "hit team" that in 1973 killed an Arab waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, in the mistaken belief that he was a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the Munich massacre of eleven Olympic athletes. A native of Copenhagen who maintained Danish and Israeli citizenship, Ert tried to win his release by telling his flabbergasted Norwegian interrogators that he was a Mossad agent. To prove it, he mentioned that he "owned the ship" that had secretly carried uranium for Israel. (Ert has since denied saying this.) Ert also...
...TIME, Dec. 27). Eleven members, led by Iran and Iraq, raised their prices by 10%, to an average $12.70 per bbl. (v. $2.30 per bbl. in pre-embargo 1973); they also agreed to hike prices a further 5% on July 1. But the Saudis and their allies, the United Arab Emirates, arguing that higher fuel costs would hamper the recovery of the industrialized world, raised their prices by only 5%. Today their oil, which accounts for one-third of OPEC's output, sells...