Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crown prince Hassan of Jordan is a rather short Arab with a van dyke beard and a very short step, but last Friday night on the second floor of the Harvard Faculty Club he charmed two dozen guests of the Center for International Affairs...
Guests this week said that the prospect of consultancy arrangements between Harvard and Jordan never came up, although personal contracts between the Arab nation and Harvard personnel have existed in the past and could emerge in the future...
Politics in Syria is synonymous with the Baath Party. Baath - Arabic for renaissance - is a movement founded by two young Syrian schoolteachers, who sought to meld Marxist socialism with Arab nationalism. Much like early Communism, the movement is organized upward from haliah (cells) of three to seven people; above the cells is a network of companies, divisions, branches and regions. In Syria the regional command is composed of a 21-member elite, with Assad as Secretary-General...
...trumpeting of the Palestinian cause, is genuinely willing to make peace with Israel at some point. In light of Syria's long history of hostility toward the Jerusalem government, chances are that any man who succeeded Assad in the near future would be even more of a pan-Arab militant...
...SCENARIOS: There are two ways to achieve a just peace. The first is through the [United Nations] Security Council, which would convene to deal with the Middle East problem, including the question of the Palestinians. A just peace in the area requires complete Israeli withdrawal from Arab territory taken in 1967 and recognition of the national rights of the people of Palestine. The second possible way is through the Geneva Conference, with the participation of the P.L.O. on an equal footing with other parties...