Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saudi businessman, "the Egyptian people will dig up his bones and piss on them." At the root of the quarrel is Sadat's bitterness at the Saudis for failing to support the Camp David accords. With Saudi help, Sadat believes, at least one or two other moderate Arab states could be enticed into joining or supporting the peace process, and that in turn could eventually lead to a wider peace. The Saudis answer that they have done the best they could to defend the Egyptians against attacks by the more radical Arab states. They consider the Egyptian press excesses...
...several reasons for the peace talks stalemate is another temporary chill in relations between Jerusalem and Washington. The Israelis are worried about what they feel is a pro-Arab, or at least a pro-Egyptian, tilt on the part of the U.S. As a prime example, they cite an October visit to Amman by Assistant Secretary of State Harold Saunders, who gave Jordan's King Hussein the official U.S. answers to 14 questions that the King had raised about the Camp David accords. Saunders, at various times a CIA, National Security Council and State Department specialist in Middle East...
...Gaza "Strip" was created by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It was the only bit of Palestine that the Egyptian army could salvage after fighting ineffectively against the creation of the state of Israel. The Egyptians subsequently used the region as a base for raids into Israel. Those raids ceased after the 1956 war between Egypt and Israel, when Gamal Abdel Nasser agreed to the placement...
Whoever follows will lead a fairly healthy nation, but he will confront serious problems as well. Boumedienne used oil revenues and international loans to build a modern society and revive the flagging Arab culture he had come from. A socialist and revolutionary ideologue who turned to Moscow for military assistance, the pragmatic Boumedienne also looked west for markets and technology. The U.S. has become Algeria's principal trading partner, buying oil and, more important, natural gas, while providing factories for consumer goods and training to teach Algerians to run the new facilities...
...Third World is also moving into steelmaking. Brazil and Mexico have already become exporters. Argentina and Chile are increasing their capacity. By the early 1980s some of the oil-producing Arab countries will be turning out steel. In shipbuilding, South Korea and Brazil have some yards that are more modern than Western Europe's. Along with Poland and Taiwan, they can produce bulk carriers even more cheaply than Japan...