Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mexican American Political Association, despite Mondale's solid ties to that group; later he sauntered across the Mexican border to tell Tijuana residents that, in his opinion, illegal aliens in the U.S. pose no special social burden. During the week he trotted out a group called Jews and Arab-Americans for Jackson in Oakland. He also addressed a rally of 500 Japanese Americans in Los Angeles, another of Chinese Americans in San Francisco and a group of homosexuals...
...young as nine or 10 slaughtered in suicide assaults on Iraqi minefields. And the stakes seem high enough. Sixty percent of the West's oil flows from the Gulf. An Iranian victory might unleash a wave of radical Islamic fundamentalism throughout the region, threatening the stability of moderate Arab states...
Halfway around the globe, the largest armies since World War II have inflicted enormous upon each other. The Iranians have amussed estimated 400,000 troops in a front covering Basra. Iraq's second largest city, and the disputed Shatt al Arab waterway. Already, three times as many Iranian soldiers have died in the 43 month conflict that did Americans in the much longer Vietnam...
...best characters in the world," bubbles Goldie Hawn, 38, who was filming Protocol in the capital, where she also grew up. Goldie plays a cocktail waitress who through a hilarious (it says here) series of events becomes a State Department protocol officer. Not amused, however, was the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Some extras who answered a casting call for "Arab-looking" types started a protest after seeing the script, which satirizes the kaffiyeh-clad emissaries of a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom. Worry about adverse publicity led Executive Producer Hawn and the film's other bosses to agree...
...West Bank, the cycle of terror and retribution seems unbreakable. Late last week, sources close to Israeli military authorities disclosed that more than 20 people were arrested in connection with an attempt to plant bombs under six Arab buses. Some of the vehicles had been chartered to take worshipers to an Islamic festival. An Israeli defense ministry official said that the suspects had long been under surveillance, and that some were caught in the act of placing the bombs. Authorities believe that their actions were planned as retaliation for a series of terrorist acts in Israel, including the April...