Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America's choked freeways, parkways, beltways, highways and byways might have guessed, more than half the gasoline consumed in the world is consumed in the U.S. That statistic implies a profligacy that might be expected to give Americans pause. But with the recession receding and the 1973 Arab oil embargo a dimming memory, Americans appear to be pausing not at all. The Federal Energy Administration noted last week that gasoline currently is being guzzled at a pace that seems certain to drown all previous records...
...before, but then they have not been very diligent in keeping track of such things. Until recently, operatives belonging to all manner of terrorist groups had wandered through Paris with little fear of trouble from les flics; the French government had been trying to maintain friendly relations with all Arab countries and their many, often violent, political factions and had hoped Paris would become a kind of fire-free zone that would be spared the terrorism troubling other European cities...
...Fraser recognizes that persuading the lenders to go along with a refinancing plan will not be easy. Also, he is involved in a damaging dispute with Arab investors. In 1974 the Kuwait Investment Co. hired Sea Pines Co. to oversee a planned $200 million development on Kiawah Island, S.C. Fraser had counted heavily on receiving up to $300,000 annually in profits from the project for the next two decades. But last month the Kuwaitis abruptly canceled the contract and sued Sea Pines for $1.3 million, claiming overcharges. Sea Pines is countersuing for $13.6 million, asserting that the Kuwaitis used...
Agnew's projection of the next seven years is a world not unlike the present. Detente still holds. The Middle East is still a bear pit of Arab-Israeli animosity and big-power intrigue. At home, President Walter Hurley is winding up a second term of "no sudden moves, no scandals, no tricky p.r. ploys, no jet-set diplomacy...
Part of the problem is that the Arab charges contain a measure of truth. For nearly a decade, Jerusalem has touted the West Bank occupation as a model exercise. But today, the cumulative effects of nine years of occupation, rising Palestinian nationalism and Israeli moves toward permanent occupation are all contributing to rising tension. Arabs are alarmed by rumors of secret land purchases and the belligerent attempts of religious Jews to establish unauthorized settlements in these biblical lands. The most aggressive is Gush Emunim (the Group of Faith), whose settlement attempts and mass marches (TIME, May 3) are a major...