Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of Lebanon 14 months ago. It was a bloody reminder of the dominant presence in southern Lebanon of the Shi'ites, the Muslims who now make up 40% of the country's population of 3 million. Long an impoverished rural people, Shi'ite followers in Iran and the Arab world split from the dominant Sunni Muslims over doctrinal issues concerning the descendants of the prophet Muhammad. In recent years the Shi'ites have waged a successful struggle for political equality and economic well-being. With success has come unprecedented power, and power has created a cauldron of shifting alliances...
What are the Shi'ites of Lebanon up to? Unlike other Arab groups, most Shi'ites despise the Palestinians, who occupied their country for twelve years prior to the Israeli invasion in 1982, almost as much as they hate the Israelis, who now control a six-mile by 40-mile security zone in the south. The extremists, including Hizballah, or Party of God, and Islamic Jihad, which is believed to be a terrorist unit within Hizballah, want to create in Lebanon an Iranian-style Islamic republic. The mainstream Amal, by contrast, wants to ensure that the Shi'ites have...
Within three days, the cartel endorsed the plan. It requires the Saudis to slash production from a July average of 5.8 million bbl. a day to 4.35 million. Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are also called upon to make hefty cuts, reducing their combined output by roughly 40%, to some 1.85 million...
...dinner parties--are unmistakably Sally Quinn's turf. Hostesses are grasping, Senators calculating, and just about everybody randy. "It's a novel about Washington," Quinn explains. "There are so many living and breathing cliches walking around this town that you sort of have to put them in." An amorous Arab diplomat gives a blond reporter a Mercedes. Before the Shah fell, it was rumored that Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi had offered Quinn one. "It never happened, but some papers reported that it did," says Quinn, "so I put it in the book...
...aides met for a total of ten hours. The King told his countrymen later in a televised speech that he and Peres had failed to agree on a means of reviving the Middle East peace process. The Israeli leader, said Hassan, had flatly refused to meet two of the Arab world's fundamental demands: direct negotiations with the P.L.O. and withdrawal from the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, which Israel has occupied since 1967. Said the King: "I told him, 'If that is how things are, then goodbye...