Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drug traffic. Another was keeping track of potential presidential assassins. The other two areas were terrorism and possible foreign support for civil disturbances. Cryptically, Allen told the Senators that the watchlist monitoring had prevented "a major terrorist act" in an American city. The episode apparently involved a plan by Arab terrorists to hide explosives in a car parked on a New York City street and detonate them when Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who was visiting the city, passed...
...scathingly criticizes these groups for delaying construction of the Alaskan pipeline. The slowdown retarded U.S. economic growth and helped the Arab-dominated OPEC oil cartel grossly inflate oil prices and expand its powers. Among the consequences: "The unemployment of black teen-agers...
...Sudr oilfields; that move is now scheduled to be completed by mid-November. Almost simultaneously, Syrian and Israeli troops clashed on the Golan Heights. It was the first such incident since the Syrian-Israeli disengagement in May 1974. The Syrian strategy seemed clearly designed to discredit Sadat in the Arab world on the eve of his departure to Washington. Damascus apparently intends to raise tension on the Golan to draw world attention to this unsolved problem, and President Hafez Assad has warned that Syria may not renew the U.N. force mandate, which expires on Nov. 30. By contrast, the peacekeeping...
...tenth of the price, and at the same time you double the price of the goods you are selling back, you are creating conditions of poverty and tension that do not lead to democracy. For example, Venezuela has always supplied oil to the U.S. When the [1973 Arab oil] embargo took place, Venezuela not only declined to join it but also increased her production to meet the needs of the American market. Nevertheless, a discriminatory trade law against OPEC members was passed in Congress. This has been used most successfully by the Communists and other anti-American groups in their...
...United Nations has become an absolute pawn in the hands of the Arab countries," Alan M. Dershowitz, a law school professor, said last night...