Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no doubt that the Egyptians, and their moderate Arab allies, are growing increasingly skeptical about the possibility of a dialogue with Begin. As Saudi Arabia's King Khalid bluntly put it on a visit to Kuwait: "Begin does not want peace." The Saudi monarch was pressing his own view that the time has come to ignore Begin and concentrate on what he sees as the real danger to the Middle East: recent Soviet penetration along the Red Sea and in the Horn of Africa, which threatens to encircle the Arabian oilfields and block the Suez Canal...
Syrian military forces, which had moved into Lebanon in 1976 to control Palestinian and Muslim leftists then threatening Christian political elements in the country and had stayed on as part of an Arab peace-keeping force, were now waging war against the Christians they had once rescued from defeat. After six days of heavy fighting around Beirut that left more than 200 dead and 500 wounded, a shaky cease-fire went into effect. But not before the conflict had nearly triggered the resignation of President Elias Sarkis and threatened to engulf the region in a deadly confrontation between Israel...
...settlements from both territories, under the supervision of the United Nations. In a five-year transition period, during which a final agreement would be negotiated, the West Bank would be under Jordanian authority and Gaza returned to Egyptian protection. The plan also demanded the return of East Jerusalem to Arab authority; the Arab section of the Holy City has been formally merged with Israeli West Jerusalem since...
...dead-end fraud investigation, he links the murder of a May fair tart to a web of political, financial and sexual hanky-panky that encompasses a titled M.P., a police chief superintendent who turns drag queen by night, Middlesex pols and proles, bird hunters of all varieties and an Arab sheik bent on making the green and pheasant land an adjunct of Riyadh. Molehill is the sixth novel by Oxonian Kenyon, 47, and the first to feature the engaging 'Enry Peckover, whose career can only...
...ascendancy of the fanatic Marxist Ismail, who has boasted of defeating all "enemies of the revolution" with his People's Militia, strengthens Moscow's hand in the Arab world's only avowedly Marxist state. Aden has replaced the Somali port of Berbera as the chief Russian naval base in the area. Soviet air force planes use the former British airstrips at Ras Karma and Muri. Large underground arms depots have been constructed to store weapons that can be rushed to pro-Communist movements in black Africa...