Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he wrote those lines several years ago, Arab Poet Tawfiq Zayad could scarcely have imagined how sharp a thorn he would become to the Israelis. In a stunning election victory last week, Zayad, 46, a lifelong Communist agitator, became the new mayor of Nazareth, which is not only the town where Jesus spent his youth but also the largest (pop. 40,000) all-Arab city in Israel. Zayad polled an overwhelming 67% of the vote, while members of his broad Democratic Front coalition won eleven of the 17 seats on the city council...
Jerusalem has an understandable worry. The Nazareth election could encourage Israel's 400,000 Arab citizens (12% of the total population), who are now fragmented among several Jewish-led parties, to gather together in a single political organization and thus possibly exert real power at the polls for the first time. With this prospect in mind, some unhappy officials in Jerusalem are already pondering the question in St. John in the New Testament: "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth...
...Funny. Whitehall officials have often joked that Britain might some day become a member of the Arab-dominated Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and that some London civil servants might exchange their bowlers for Arab burnooses. Last week, at Rome's baroque Palazzo Barberini, Wilson in all seriousness argued before his Common Market colleagues that "it is no longer a humorous matter to point out that in a few years there is a strong possibility that Britain could become a member of OPEC...
...more than two years, many of the world's oil-producing countries have been intensifying their drive to nationalize their oil industries. Last week the campaign passed a milestone: Kuwait became the first Arab country to achieve 100% ownership of its producing company. For $50.5 million the government bought the remaining 40% of Kuwait Oil Co. that had been owned by Gulf Oil and British Petroleum. Although the settlement followed months of acrimonious negotiations presided over by Oil Minister Abdel Muttaleb al Kazimi, it scarcely came as a surprise: the government had announced plans in March to complete...
...United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi, the leading producer, has been negotiating sporadically to raise from 60% to 100% the emirates' ownership of local production, but it has indicated that it plans to leave the current 60%-40% arrangement intact through 1976. Says U.A.E. Petroleum Minister Mani Said Utaiba: "We feel we shouldn't rush things...