Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Japan is also growing more active on the diplomatic front. On a Middle East tour last week, Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno became the first Japanese Cabinet minister to visit Israel; heavily dependent on oil imports, Japan had long snubbed Israel to keep favor with the Arab states. In early June the Japanese offered to mediate a Vietnamese withdrawal from Kampuchea...
...statement was distributed in early June at the Arab summit in Algiers but was not widely discussed until it was published last week in the Arab press. "The means by which the Israelis want to achieve lasting peace and security is direct talks, with no attempt by any outside party to impose or veto a settlement," wrote Abu Sharif. "The Palestinians agree." The P.L.O. plea went on to give a qualified endorsement to United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338, which recognize Israel's right to exist within secure borders, and to state explicitly, perhaps for the first time, that...
...tank. The Saudi government has agreed to pay $1.2 billion for a 50% interest in Texaco's refining and marketing operations in 23 U.S. states, mostly in the East. If the deal is approved by both governments and Texaco's shareholders, it would represent the largest Arab investment in the U.S. oil industry...
Awad, 44, has been an irritant to the Israeli government for years. Through his Jerusalem-based Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence, he has been advocating a campaign of civil disobedience against Israeli occupation of territories captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. An admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., Awad urges, among other things, a Palestinian boycott of Israeli products and Israeli taxes, and destruction of Israeli fences and power lines built across Arab land...
With Iraq on the offensive, morale in Iran is sagging. -- Arafat gets a boost at the Arab summit. -- The French send Mitterrand a message...