Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personal antipathy toward Begin, Sadat has grown increasingly impatient over Israeli stalling and U.S. reluctance to put forth a plan of its own, which Cairo thinks would serve to pressure Israel into some concessions. The most important factor, however, is believed to be a new Saudi Arabian campaign for Arab unity, aimed at reconciling Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad, who broke with Egypt over Sadat's visit to Jerusalem last November...
Dayan: We do not rule out negotiations and discussions over the sovereignty of the West Bank. What we say is, let's discuss it toward the end of the five-year transition period. During the five-year period, we are going to pay more than half the price the Arabs are asking for? a down payment, a very substantial one?abolishing the military regime. I believe any Arab country, if it knows the other alternative is just to go on with things as they are, should accept that. We are not ready to make a precommitment. After five years...
...tanks by day, huddling beside tents and fires by night. "Lebanon is a thankless, difficult, lonely task," says one high-ranking Damascus official. No one knows that better than Assad's 30,000 troops, who at a cost of $3 million a day provide the bulwark of the Arab peace-keeping force inside Lebanon. In a land where there are more guns than people, violence and bloodshed are always near, ambush and assassination everyday occurrences. But without the Syrian presence the violence would, in all likelihood, be even more brutally unconfined...
Assad's admirers call him "the Tito of the Arab world"?a military man who has become an astute politician on a precarious world stage. In seven years, Syria's per capita income has jumped 203% to the present $760, more than twice that of Egypt. The Soviet Union's stranglehold on Syrian imports and exports of the early 1970s has been broken, and today the U.S., Europe and Japan do more business in Syria than does Moscow. Assad is also trying to broaden his country's foreign political alignments. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem, which...
...lift not from subsidies or new fares but from a far more basic development: peace in the Middle East. Officials speak wistfully of being able to do away with some costly security measures, carrying tourists to both Tel Aviv and Cairo, and expanding routes to rich new markets in Arab countries...