Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their May 17 national elections. Thus while Premier Yitzhak Rabin has expressed willingness to return to Geneva or go to "any other place" for genuine peace talks, his archrival, Defense Minister Shimon Peres, still insists that progress toward peace can be achieved by a series of limited Arab-Israeli accords...
...Geneva if that would mean sitting down with members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The unresolved question of Palestinian representation at the bargaining table remains the most formidable obstacle to a conference on the Middle East. One possible compromise has the P.L.O. attending Geneva as part of a single Arab delegation; another scheme sees the conference opening without the P.L.O. but with the implicit understanding that the delegates would devise a formula allowing eventual P.L.O. participation. Before leaving, Vance endorsed the "legitimate interests of the Palestinian people." U.S. support of these interests almost certainly depends on the willingness...
...21st century. Diane and Stony McBride (Madeline Kahn and Joel Grey) are the fun couple of the '90s: he is directing a movie about Marco Polo, and she is having an affair with Tom Wintermouth (Chris Sarandon), a global Mr. Fixit who has ingeniously resolved the Arab-Israeli crisis by creating the state of Saudi Israel...
...realities are that Israel still occupies Arab territory and it is still unclear whether Israel has made a definite choice between peace or continued occupation. Both are impossible. Militarily, Israel is stronger than it has ever been, whereas the same cannot be said of her neighbors, even compared with 1973. Israel must evolve a new courage to break away from the fortress mentality to a willingness to take a gamble on peace...
...contest for the Spiro Agnew Memorial Ethnic Slur Award, which last year went to Earl Butz, is already under way. A strong early bid has been made by Federal Trade Commissioner Paul Rand Dixon, who called Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader a "son of a bitch" and a "dirty Arab" in a Jan. 17 speech before the Grocery Manufacturers of America. Nader's offense was charging that the commission coddled industry at the expense of the public. Dixon's semiapologetic remarks to a reporter did not help matters much. Conceding that his slur on Nader, who is of Lebanese...