Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with revelers flashing signs, DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD." At Governor Jerry Brown's re-election party in Los Angeles, Correspondent Joe Kane observed while celebrants, dressed in costumes ranging from knickers to gold lamè, absorbed mariachi music. "To top it all off," says Kane, "an Arab sheik arrived in full native costume, including six rings. He easily fit into this curious, Bruegelian scene...
...procedural agreements," Walzer said, significantly ensure two things: Negotiations on the specifics of a West Bank agreement will begin one month after the signing of the Camp David accord and these negotiations will establish an "autonomous Arab authority" in the area, although the exact nature of its sovereignty is unclear under the Camp David agreement...
...foreign (one of the nation's highest ratios), and a passel of Saudi princes has passed through there. When plans for the center were announced last month to U.S.C.'s trustees, however, Jewish leaders and the Los Angeles Times attacked it as a Trojan horse for Arab propaganda, and the center came under heavy fire from members of U.S.C.'s faculty senate...
...financial support of the center was to be vested in a three-man committee comprising a Los Angeles-area businessman, a U.S.C. dean and U.S.C. Professor Willard Beling, a former employee of Aramco (Arabian American Oil Co.) and holder of the Saudi-endowed King Faisal Chair of Islamic and Arab Studies. Beling would also become the center's director, and many of the faculty were fretting over his not being subject to the university's normal committee checks and balances in making appointments and running the center. Quipped one professor: "Why not just set up a feudal society...
...wasn't your basic fairy tale. The bearded Arab King started to propose over a dessert plate of apples, and the pretty American blonde responded: "Have another apple." That interlude, says Jordan's Queen Nur, 27, on ABC's Nov. 29 Barbara Walters Special, led to her marriage to King Hussein, 42. After the ceremony, says the former Lisa Halaby, she settled down in the palace with her husband's kids and the family pet camel, Fluffy, and faced her tough new job: being Queen. The King has not been much help on protocol, she says...