Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Latin America is not the only under-represented region among the scholars, Simons said. There have only been two Black African and two Arab journalists in the 35 years of the program. Simons said he has tried to find financial backing for these groups as well, but had less success...
Recently, however, Israel's vaunted state-security apparatus seems to have gone amuck. Shin Bet has been under a cloud for some time, but especially since last summer, when its director and three aides were forced to resign amid allegations of complicity in the murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers. In October a technician at Israel's top-secret nuclear complex at Dimona, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed the purported details of the country's nuclear weapons program, never officially acknowledged, in London's Sunday Times. He was later reportedly lured to Rome by a female MOSSAD agent and kidnaped...
...domestic production faltered last year, imports rose by 900,000 bbl. a day, a 28% increase. The U.S. now depends on foreign producers for 38% of its supplies. In 1973, when oil prices surged in the wake of the Arab embargo against the U.S., Americans relied on foreign producers for 35% of their oil. As in the halcyon days of the 1960s, Americans believe they ought to be able to buy big cars if they feel like it or turn up the thermostat at every chill...
...trawler, owned jointly by Australian and Arab companies, was on contract to Iran. An owners' representative said in Dubai that the ship was being towed to Dubai and the company had decided to pull out all its 10-trawler fleet from the area...
...French mine sweeper discovered a mine in the Gulf of Oman near the United Arab Emirates port of Khor-Al-Fakkan, near where it found another mine the previous day, the Defense Ministry in Paris said...