Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing to say "Hurray" to Jessica Yellin '92 for her courageous letter in The Crimson (February 3) criticizing the Harvard Black Students Association (BSA) for inviting Leonard Jeffries to our campus. I say "Hurry" also to other students--white, Black, Asian, Arab, etc.--who recognize that there are occasions when they must stand up and challenge their peers whose political actions are so morally askew. And this must be done regardless of the recent essentially manipulated anti-Political Correctness posturing among neoconservatives--a posturing based upon grossly exaggerated claims regarding the presence of a left-wing "Politically Correct" takeover...
...officers and troops remaining may be more afraid of the Iraqi masses -- and the Kurdish and Shi'ite dissidents -- than they are of Saddam. An Arab diplomat relates a conversation that occurred when the Iraqi dictator visited his capital well before the invasion of Kuwait. Saddam, says the diplomat, told his hosts that he had no illusions: if he ever fell from power, the mobs would so shred his body that not a piece of him larger than a fingertip would survive. But, he added, he had warned his subordinates that exactly the same thing would happen to them...
...prevent or stop massacres, the U.S. might be forced into an indefinite occupation and installation of a kind of puppet government in Baghdad (shades of Vietnam!). Absent some gross new provocation from Saddam, much of the Arab world would regard this as a neo-colonial occupation; the outbreaks of anti- Western fury that were predicted but failed to occur during the gulf war might really happen this time. At minimum, the U.S. would lose the leverage that has enabled it to get Arab-Israeli peace talks started...
...however, it was not so much because of his experience in the world arena as because the Africans insisted it was their turn for leadership of the U.N. As an Egyptian, Boutros-Ghali was on their list of six acceptable candidates, even though he is a highly Europeanized Christian Arab. The Security Council, bowing to the Africans' demand, chose...
China is getting a ticket to attend this week's round of Middle East talks in Moscow. Israel gains a higher international profile and an embassy from which it will try to increase its trade with China and decrease Chinese arms sales to the Arab world...