Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspect was identified, from a picture taken by the ship's photographer before the rampage, as Mohammed Zozan, described by police as a 21-year-old holding a Lebanese passport. But the occupants of the demolished car could not be identified, and from the murky world of Arab terrorist factions, no convincing claim of responsibility was forthcoming...
...accord delivers a blow to U.S. influence in the Arab world and highlights the Reagan Administration's losing fight to overcome the resistance of the powerful U.S. Jewish lobby to weapons sales to Arab countries. The last major U.S. deal with the Saudis was in 1981, when the Administration barely surmounted congressional opposition and sold Riyadh five AWACS radar- surveillance planes...
...Iran Air passengers were fromIran. The others were from India, Italy, Pakistan,Turkey, Yugoslavia and the United Arab Emirates...
...plane at an approximate range of six miles. Because of poor visibility, the jet was not visually sighted until the missile hit. The plane turned out to be Iran Air Flight 655 en route from the Iranian coastal city of Bandar Abbas to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates...
...Arafat had not made any public comment on what Abu Sharif himself called a "policy breakthrough." But U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, touring the region last week, was encouraged by the statement's lack of "strident rhetoric" and called it a "contribution to rational discussion" of the Arab-Israeli dispute...