Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shipping sources said the United Arab Emirates declared a "danger zone" in the affected part of its anchorage 30 miles south of the gulf, where tankers transship oil and ships take on supplies. It also has been used to assemble convoys for trips up the gulf by Kuwaiti tankers flying American flags and escorted by U.S. warships...
Coast guard patrols in Fujairah ordered ships away from the 35-square-mile area after an Arab vessel reported sighting the sixth mine early yesterday...
...other hand, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev wishes to simultaneously expand his influence in the Arab world and pursue overtures toward Israel. Thus he has recently sold to Syria at least one squadron of MiG-29s, the Soviet equivalent of Israel's American-made F-16 jet fighters, but refuses to supply Damascus with sophisticated SS-23 land missiles. The disclosure that Israel possesses a comparable weapon has forced Gorbachev to denounce the missile in order to curry favor with Arab nations...
...have responded gingerly to Radio Moscow's threats. "The Soviet Union itself knows it faces no danger from Israel," declared Foreign Minister Shimon Peres last week. Israeli officials privately spread the word that the Jericho II has a range of only 500 miles, which would mean it could strike Arab capitals but would fall short of Soviet territory. At the same time, however, it is believed that Israel is working on a longer-range version that would indeed bring the southern edge of the Soviet Union within its reach...
...Pentagon. Following a National Security Planning Group meeting in early March, President Reagan approved the plan. But many involved say that top officials were too distracted by the Iran-contra controversy to examine its implications fully. Ironically, the scandal provided an impetus to the reflagging proposal. Moderate Arab states reacted angrily last fall to news that the U.S. had secretly dealt with Iran. Kuwait then requested Soviet protection for its tankers. Administration officials concede that granting assistance to Kuwait was a way to make up for the U.S.'s loss of credibility and to counter the Soviet move...