Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life within. But Kuwaitis monitoring air-to-ground radio broadcasts picked up bloodcurdling sounds from the jet: they were the anguished shrieks and hysterical crying of a man being tortured and maimed. For those watching the tense drama developing, there were glimpses of gun-toting youths with checkered Arab headcloths drawn over their faces, and then the gruesome evidence of the hell unfolding for the 161 passengers and crew inside the grounded Airbus: the body of an American, stripped of all identifying papers, ignominiously dumped on the snow-dusted tarmac...
...something of a historic moment last week when the red, white and black flag of Iraq was raised on P Street in Washington. An Iraqi-owned building, used for unofficial diplomatic and commercial tasks, was converted into a full-fledged embassy as the U.S. resumed formal relations with the Arab country after a 17-year estrangement. To mark the event, President Reagan and Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz met at the White House. Iraq broke its ties with the U.S. in 1967 in protest of U.S. support for Israel in the Six-Day War with Arab nations...
...overall Middle East peace conference. But the group reiterated their rejection of United Nations Resolution 242, which the King had suggested as the basis for such a conference. Passed in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967, the resolution calls on Israel to return occupied Arab territories in exchange for recognition of its right to exist...
Ever since fighting broke out between Iran and Iraq more than four years ago, six countries on the Persian Gulf-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates-have been concerned about the potential threat the war poses to their oil interests. The heads of those nations, which formed the Gulf Cooperation Council in 1981, met last week to take out a sort of insurance policy against any damaging spillover from the war. After a three-day meeting in Kuwait's palatial conference hall, built especially for this summit, the leaders announced plans for the creation...
Students can also attend lectures given by special "native" professors. Presentations range from, "how to give Egyptian backrubs" to an "intense debate between an Arab and an Israeli," said...