Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ordinarily, the detention of a suspected Arab terrorist would have been cleared with Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski and probably with President Giscard himself. But Poniatowski apparently discovered that Abu Daoud was in DST hands only a couple of hours before the West German Interior Minister called him to say that Bonn wanted the Palestinian held, pending a formal extradition request...
...Daoud arrested and why? That was the question of the week. The most plausible answer was Israel, whose intelligence agents keep close watch on P.L.O. terrorists. By alerting friends in the DST to Abu Daoud's presence in France, they could both embarrass Giscard for his pro-Arab policy and score another round against the Palestinians. Yet despite reports that Israeli agents had tipped off the French in Beirut that Abu Daoud was on his way to Paris, intelligence sources in Tel Aviv denied that they had had anything to do with it. One top-level official said...
...passed to the West Germans, who signaled Paris of their intention to seek Abu Daoud's arrest and extradition. The DST's failure to inform higher-ups led some to believe that pro-Israeli officials in the DST and other ministries were out to torpedo the pro-Arab government of Giscard...
...bitter scrap that pits Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against the eleven other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, it is far too early to predict the ultimate winners. But so far, the minority of two seems to be ahead. The Saudis appear to be attracting enough new customers to force their rivals into production cutbacks and price fiddling...
Under a tacit agreement, the British government has left BP's managers free to go their own way, even when they have strained politicians' patience. During the 1973 Arab oil embargo, BP diverted shipments of Middle Eastern crude away from Britain, where prices were under government control, to Germany, where the market was free. The same year, BP pulled out of the unprofitable Italian market, with never a word from Whitehall about what that would do to Common Market solidarity...