Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bint Jebail and the Christian settlement of Ain Ebel. Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, meanwhile, insisted that his forces were free to regroup in that area (see following story). Israel so opposes this, as well as the idea of having Syrian soldiers on a second Israeli border-even as Arab peace keepers-that the Jerusalem government convened its "war cabinet," deployed armor on the boundary, and threatened to invade Syria by sending tank forces rolling off the Golan Heights to Damascus if the Syrians either moved troops into southern Lebanon or introduced surface-to-air missiles anywhere in Lebanon...
...moment, any possibility of confrontation has been foreclosed by Lebanese President Elias Sarkis, who has reportedly proposed to keep peace in the south with non-Syrian contingents of the Arab peace-keeping force-Saudi Arabia, the Sudan and the United Arab Emirates-along with Lebanese Christian and Shiite volunteers. That solution seems to have mollified all concerned-except the Palestinians...
...fictional character and no doubt a surprise to photographer David Robinson.) All is fine and dandy between the two, as uncovered in some badly written bedroom scenes, until Paola must leave Rome, where most of the novel is set, for the Mideast. There, she is to photograph the latest Arab-Israeli conflict (more Death...
...goes to social services and welfare programs. The government claims to have built 346,000 new housing units since 1970, virtually eliminating slums. Medical care is free, and Libyans can increasingly afford the foreign consumer goods piled up in Tripoli's mile-long port. Like other oil-rich Arab lands, Libya has a chronic labor shortage. Nearly 300,000 workers-about 40% of the labor force-come from abroad. They include 250,000 Egyptians, who send $400 million annually home to aid their hard-pressed economy...
...Astors had received other bids for the Observer-from Fleet Street, four Arab countries and even a Hong Kong patent-medicine heiress. Until last week the leading suitor was Publisher Rupert Murdoch, the Australian whose three-continent newspaper empire includes London's Sun and News of the World and who two weeks ago agreed to buy the New York Post. But the Astors were troubled that many of Murdoch's 87 newspapers are distinguished chiefly by their attention to sex and scandal, and Murdoch would not guarantee editorial independence to Observer editors...