Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John's Bargain Stores that attracted a couple of oil-rich Arab shoppers last week. In Seattle, spokesmen for the Boeing Company confirmed having discussions with agents of King Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz, 63, of Saudi Arabia. His Majesty, it seems, is in the market for a monster five-story-high 7475P jet that would probably cost upward of $50 million and include a stratospheric throne plus a royal hospital room wired for communication via satellite. Back in Chicago, meanwhile, emissaries of Qabus bin Said, 35, Sultan of Oman, were content merely to rent space...
...Galilee, Arabs now account for 47% of the population. Within a decade, Koenig warned, "it is seriously to be feared that there will be an Arab takeover, demographically and politically, in Acre and Nazareth...
Koenig suggested ways of "thinning out" Arab concentrations in Israel. The government, he urged, should set up a political party for the Arabs that could be infiltrated by agents who would keep track of Arab aims. Emigration restrictions on Arab students ought to be eased, he said, and re-entry made next to impossible. Arab families ought to be stripped of government grants. In Galilee, where Arab workers constitute half the labor force in some Jewish-owned businesses, there should be an Arab job ceiling of 20%. That way, Koenig argued, economic insecurity would keep Arab minds off "thoughts...
...crossroads town of Ain Toura. Assad and Sarkis demanded that the Palestinians evacuate their salient and return to their refugee camps below the mountains. In addition, Assad insisted that Palestinian Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat send away any P.L.O. units that had come into the battered state from other Arab countries to join the fighting on the Leftist-Moslem Lebanese side...
...Israel from Lebanon as it saw fit. To obey the Cairo accord now, Arafat realized, would be to destroy the last unrestricted political base left to the Palestinians in the Middle East. The P.L.O. chief refused to withdraw from the mountains and sent urgent pleas for support to other Arab countries, including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia...