Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both sides had anticipated, no breakthroughs were made at Geneva. Repeating his statement to a Clinton, Mass., town meeting in March, however, Carter declared that "there must be a resolution of the Palestine problem and a homeland for the Palestinians." Assad agrees with other Arab leaders that the creation of a Palestinian state is required for peace. In Jeddah, meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd-who will visit Washington next week-suggested to newsmen that the Palestine Liberation Organization would be willing to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for a Palestinian state...
...Eventual normalization of travel, trade and other relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors to meet the President's third condition, an atmosphere of peace...
From this minisummit, Carter would head to Geneva for a half-day meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad on the prospects for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. An intensely proud man, Assad is the only Middle East leader who declined an invitation to Washington; he even balked at meeting Carter in London. The President, however, apparently decided that it would be worth going the extra half-step to see Assad, the only major Arab chieftain with lines open to the Soviets...
...Arab Traders. It is questionable whether anyone else could do much better than Suharto at governing Indonesia -a diverse (more than 300 ethnic groups, dozens of languages) archipelago of 3,000 mineral-rich islands scattered over 3,000 miles of ocean. Just as it lured Arab traders and Dutch colonialists in centuries past, Indonesia today entices Western and Japanese businessmen interested in a financial killing. The sight of safari-suited foreigners sitting by the pools of Jakarta's luxury hotels, drinking Bintang beer and talking about pipelines, drill sites and tax laws, is testimony to the seductive pull...
...polls has risen, rather than falling sharply as he once said he feared it would when he announced the energy program. On the other hand, surveys taken by Pennsylvania-based Sindlinger & Co. in the past two weeks show the sharpest drop in consumer confidence in the economy since the Arab oil embargo of 1973. Chairman Albert Sindlinger blames confusion among consumers as to just what the energy program is likely to do to them...