Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brezhnev still has the will and the energy to do those enervating things that national leaders have to do. He meets foreign visitors?U.S. Senators, Communist delegations, Asian and Arab ministers, bankers and industrialists?almost every day. He participates in uncounted party and government conferences. Perhaps most trying of all, he not only delivers long public speeches and reports, but sits through interminable speeches by others...
...speak, for example, of the Middle East, the interests of detente are in no way contradicted by the struggle of the Arab peoples for the return of lands which belong to them but have been seized by Israel and for the right of the Palestinians to set up a state of their own, or by the actions of those who support these legitimate demands of the Arabs. It is those who support the aggressor, encouraging the expansionist cravings, that are acting contrary to the interests of detente in the Middle East...
...worked out by March at the latest. Meanwhile, Anwar Sadat remains committed to a proposal he has made to Washington before: lean on Israel enough to get a comprehensive settlement, then build up Egypt with a multibillion dollar Marshall Plan and use it as a policeman of the Arab world. A more modest version of that grandiose scheme could fit in with a plan for a trilateral power structure in the Middle East that some Americans and many Israelis have proposed: the development of the entire area using Israel's technology, Egypt's manpower and Saudi Arabia...
Iraq and Syria have taken steps in recent months to end their long political feud and lead the Arab opposition to the Camp David peace accords. Both hardline states oppose Egypt's peace moves and have vowed to build up their military challenge to Israel to compensate for Egypt's withdrawal from the conflict...
...state radio quoted foreign reports attributed to Arab diplomatic sources in Damascus...