Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seize what he called "a last chance" by joining Jordan in an international peace conference under United Nations auspices that would work toward establishing a Palestinian homeland. The plan, first proposed by Moscow, calls for both the U.S. and the Soviet Union to participate, along with Israel and Arab countries. The Jordanian monarch, who broke off talks with Arafat in April 1983, took a polite dig at Arafat's legendary indecisiveness. "The justification of the existence of a leader rests on his fulfillment of his responsibilities with wisdom and courage," Hussein declared. "It is not indefinite suspension but proper...
...with a series of noncommercial flights. Most of Arianespace's customers are firms and government agencies from within the European Community. Nonetheless, both Arianespace and NASA are competing for the proliferating satellite market outside Western Europe. So far, Arianespace has won contracts for six American, two Brazilian, one Arab, one Australian and several other international payloads. Altogether, the European company has about $750 million worth of contracts for launching 30 satellites. By comparison, NASA has booked 76 commercial contracts worth $1.9 billion over the next four years. Says Jerry Fitts, deputy director of customer services for NASA...
...governments' name-calling and mutual suspicion throughout the 1970s, a tentative courtship between the Reagan Administration and the regime of Saddam Hussein has been quietly blossoming in recent years. Now the two countries are about to resume diplomatic relations, broken off by Iraq during the 1967 Arab-Israeli...
...minister described last week's hastily arranged gathering as "just a meeting of old friends." But as everyone present knew, the coy assessment by Mani Said al-Oteiba of the United Arab Emirates understated the gravity of the situation. Ministers from six of the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries huddled for 1½ days last week at Geneva's Inter-Continental Hotel to devise a scheme to halt the slide in oil prices. The cartel's current crisis began two weeks ago, when OPEC member Nigeria followed price cuts made by nonmembers Norway...
...ministers hope to avoid repeating their desperate move of March 1983, when they were forced to make the first and only price cut in OPEC'S history, a markdown of its benchmark Arab Light crude by $5 per bbl., to $29. Since then, energy conservation and sluggish world economic growth have helped push oil prices even lower, despite OPEC's self-imposed production limit of 17.5 million bbl. a day. Ministers hinted last week that they might reduce their output to about 16 million bbl. a day. By comparison, the group's daily production...