Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former WHO official. On a mission to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Pradier says, he found Israeli and Palestinian doctors eager to meet to discuss health issues there. But when he proposed that WHO arrange such meetings, Geneva was aghast that the agency might seem to be interfering in Arab-Israeli political disputes. WHO asserts that all this happened before 1990, and it has since taken an active role in helping solve health problems in the Israeli-occupied areas...
...Algerian terrorist group suspected of Tuesday's Paris subway bombing has threatening more terrorism unless France severs virtually all ties with the military government of Algeria, its former colony. In a statement published in the London-based Arab-language newspaper Asharq al Awsat, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) demanded that President Jacques Chirac cancel a planned meeting with Algerian President Liamine Zeroual next week, suspend all aid to Algiers, and denounce next month's Algerian presidential election. "What the militants don't understand is that Chirac is planning to read Zeroual the riot act," TIME's Bruce Crumley reports from...
Betty L. Shamich '96, of the Arab Students Association, declined to comment last night...
...communities are braced for the challenge of multilingualism. At Salina Elementary School in the shadow of the hulking Ford Rouge auto plant in Dearborn, Michigan, 90% of the students are native speakers of Arabic. Academically, many of them lag far behind other students in the district. Earlier this year, spurred by the possibility of a five-year, $5 million federal grant, school superintendent Jeremy Hughes proposed forming a two-way Arabic-English program. Not only was the proposal rejected by the local board of education after heated public criticism, but it opened the way for a wholesale attack on bilingual...
...conservatives." Worse, Allis says, the Israeli government fears a violent reaction from radicals in both camps. "Hamas is expected to do something really nasty during Rosh Hoshanah, and if that happens you never know how Israeli radicals will retaliate." Under the agreement, Israeli troops will begin a withdrawal from Arab towns in the West Bank ten days after the deal is signed. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat will sign the accord in a White House ceremony on Thursday. "Although both sides want the photo op in Washington this week," says Allis, "it is clear that...