Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pines first appreciated the significance of the Middle East in 1956 when, at 16, he avidly followed the Suez Crisis. Eleven years later, after earning his B.A. and master's degrees in history at the University of Wisconsin, he found himself reporting on European reaction to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war as a newly hired TIME correspondent stationed in Bonn...
Pines is also an expert on one other vital aspect of the entire Arab-Israeli confrontation: U.S. capabilities and what role they might play in the area. "In terms of U.S. defense priorities, no other region in the world, save for Western Europe, is as important," contends Pines. "It is now almost impossible for a journalist without a defense perspective to analyze events in the Middle East, especially after this settlement...
...Egypt and Israel to enjoy the rewards of peace. In the Middle East, however, even peace has its risks, and they may prove to be substantial. At the very best, a Cairo-Jerusalem accord can only be a first step toward a general reconciliation of Israel with all its Arab neighbors. Central to this reconciliation is a resolution of the Palestinian question. In seven Arab towns on the West Bank, Palestinian crowds greeted last week's news with jeers and barrages of stones. Israeli troops in Halhul impetuously fired into a crowd, killing two demonstrators, one of them...
...cartel's profit motive was much in evidence at an Arab energy conference in Abu Dhabi last week. Delegates bitterly attacked Western oil companies for trading oil back and forth among themselves at extortionate prices on the small but highly volatile spot market. Mani Said Utaiba, Oil Minister of the United Arab Emirates and president of the cartel, suggested that at its next meeting on March 26 in Geneva, OPEC should take up the idea of blacklisting offending companies and refusing to sell oil to them...
Gasoline might hit a dollar a gallon in the next three or four years, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger predicted last month. For once he was being optimistic. Even before any of the newly inflated Arab oil has landed on U.S. shores, gasoline prices in some parts of the country are already reaching for the one-dollar mark...