Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter did an excellent job at the Camp David summit [Oct. 2] getting Sadat and Begin to bargain. It is now up to the Arab and Israeli worlds to accept the agreement, to make it work and to keep peace throughout the Middle East. James Palmer Philadelphia...
...ceremony was short (15 minutes) and to the point. Carter welcomed the visiting delegates, called on Jordan's King Hussein and the Palestinians to join the peace process and emphasized that the current talks were merely the first step toward a comprehensive settlement involving Israel and all its Arab neighbors. Dayan, speaking for exactly one minute, declared: "It is our hope and belief that we have reached the stage in which we can finally conclude a peace treaty." In a 2½-rninute reply, Ali restated the determination of his government to achieve an overall settlement and once again...
...Palestine Liberation Army commandos to fortified positions in Beirut. The P.L. A. commandos will be the backbone of a new Syrian-controlled antimilitia alliance comprising leftist Lebanese Muslims, Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization and an army commanded by pro-Syrian Christian for mer President Suleiman Franjieh. The Arab League mandate under which the Syrian peace-keeping force has occupied Lebanon since 1976 will be reviewed on Oct. 28. If the league orders Damascus to withdraw its troops, the new force could still press the offensive against the Christian militias with Syrian arms and ammunition...
...state visit to Moscow last week, Syrian President Hafez Assad joined Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in a communiqué denouncing the "separate Camp David deal" as a "collusion arranged behind the back of the Arab nations," which would make an overall Middle East settlement "significantly more difficult." Both Assad and Brezhnev also demanded the resumption of a Geneva conference, under joint U.S. and U.S.S.R. sponsorship, which would work out a settlement based on unconditional Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories...
...visions of an imminent energy Armageddon that seemed so plausible right after the 1973 Arab oil embargo have gradually faded, but the serious questions remain: How much oil does the world have left? When will...