Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cubans are also active in a number of Arab states. They train Polisario guerrillas from Western Sahara in Algeria. In South Yemen, there are more than 3,000 advisers and special forces, including MIG-flying pilots. By far the largest detachment is in Syria: 3,500 to 4,000 men, including an entire armored brigade (with 94 Russian T-62 tanks), two commando battalions, perhaps 30 or more MIG pilots...
...Lockheed for going beyond accepted practice in its payoffs, but then adds that there is a "gray area" in which American companies must accept the moral standards of the countries where they operate, like it or not. His own company, he reports, is now negotiating a contract in an Arab country to which it will add 5% for an agent's fee. The chairman knows quite well that the agent will pass much of the money on to government officials, but will not be told their names and will not ask. If the payments were not made, he says...
...leftist third world regimes but such usage would be irrational even on its own terms, because it could only be used against those countries too weak to protect themselves, whether or not they are the chief opponents of American policy. It may be assumed that wealthy or strategically important Arab states will continue to enjoy American patronage, regardless of their votes...
...American companies and the wealth from taxation and confiscation of these companies represents a windfall from the American free market. In fact, third world resources themselves only have value because of the existence of a mighty, developed, American free market economy (and others similarly developed). The oil under Arab lands would be totally worthless if not for an American economy that could use it to produce needed goods and services and provide commodities in exchange. American productivity spills over in many other ways too--supplying capital where allowed, spreading technological breakthroughs, exporting innovations, offering a strong market for the products...
...demon, of course, is the fat, rapacious Arab sheikh whose grosslyextravagant pleasures are financed by the hard-earned money of the western people. Miles Ignotus is quite explicit in this respect, including not only the Arabs, but other Third World peoples as well: "military dictators and megalomaniacal kings of OPEC," "narrow self-appointed ruling groups (elections have become a rarity in Asia and Africa) fond of shiny black cars and numbered Swiss accounts," not to mention the by-now infamous "OPEC extortionists" and "Arab blackmailers...