Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vandalism have increased. Near a fashionable seaside shopping mall, teenage boys on motorcycles harass girls, and others race in flashy sports cars. Some of these youths were among the 400,000 Kuwaitis who left the country during the occupation and lived a life of ease in European and Arab capitals. Their re-entry into a restrictive society has disrupted the social fabric...
...this does little to quell the unease of Arab, African and European onlookers. Neighboring Tunisia and Morocco feel particularly threatened by the Islamic vote. Across the Mediterranean, Spain, Italy and France are girding for waves of fleeing Algerians to wash up on their shores. And throughout the Arab world, there are fears that such fundamentalist successes will inspire Islamic radicals at home...
...vote if parliamentary elections were held today. That is only slightly above what Le Pen personally polled in the 1988 presidential election. But the mainstream parties have kept him from making further inroads only by echoing some of his hostility to immigrants, especially dark-skinned Muslim Arabs and Africans. Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac has called for a moratorium on allowing immigrants' families to join them and suggested denying welfare payments to residents of non-French ancestry; former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has hinted at refusing automatic citizenship to French-born children of immigrants. All three ideas came straight...
...drove along a highway one day with a few of my soldiers, two Arab men pulled alongside out truck and waved for us to pull over. We pulled our truck to one side of the road behind their car. When we got out, one of the two Arabs came forward and hugged me saying, "Thank you! Thank you! Because of you, we are free...
...most prominent victim of Abedi's flimflam operation was the man whose wealth helped finance B.C.C.I.: Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan of Abu Dhabi, President of the United Arab Emirates. Investigators say approximately $2 billion of Zayed's own money, along with $7 billion in Abu Dhabi state funds, has disappeared into the bank's black hole. In the U.S., B.C.C.I.'s secret ownership of Washington's largest bank, First American, implicated former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. As chairman of First American, Clifford had denied that B.C.C.I. controlled the Washington bank; he and his partner, Robert Altman, now face...