Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis are deeply concerned that the unrest in Iran could spread within the Arab world. They also feel that the collapse of this once staunch Muslim (but non-Arab) ally of the West ought to enhance Israel's own strategic importance in Washington's eyes. How that attitude will be reflected at Camp David is not clear, although State Department officials went out of their way to indicate that the talks would not be "a make-or-break effort." The first stage, lasting from three to five days, will consist of discussions among Vance, Dayan and Khalil. Neither...
...Camp David talks. "Iran has changed everything," a senior Egyptian official told TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Dean Brelis. "There is serious doubt about Israel's intent to make peace. A duty has fallen on the U.S. to respond not as a superpower but as a friend of the Arabs." Added another official: "Camp David is no longer our No. 1 priority." What alarmed the Egyptians was the specter of a highly armed, militant Iran making common cause with such radically anti-Israel Arab states as Iraq and Libya. P.L.O. Leader Arafat was reported to have conferred with Ayatullah Khomeini...
Egypt is understandably anxious to avoid finding itself totally isolated as a peacemaker in the Arab world, should the talks with Israel collapse. For Brown and for Carter, to whom the Secretary will report immediately on his return to Washington, the hours of talks with Sadat offered an alarming perspective on just how volatile the Middle East might be without a peace accord...
Little relief is in sight on the supply side. Of the 5.8 million bbl. of Iranian oil lay lost to the world, about 900 000 bbl normally come to the U.S. and provide 5% of its daily demand for 19.4 million bbl. Extra production by Arab countries has cut the oil deficit to 2 million bbl. per day globally and 500,000 bbl in the U.S. Saudi Arabia, for example, which is committed to pumping 8.5 milion bbl. per day, is now producing 9.5 million bbl. But the Saudis are tacking a 9% premium on that extra 1 million...
...legislature last week abandoned its drive to the end federally ordered 55-m.p.h speed limit. No matter. Most U.S. drivers laugh at the limit anyway. Meanwhile, homes and offices are overheated and empty skyscrapers are lit up like Christmas trees all night long. In short, five years after the Arab oil embargo, America remains a profligate consumer and waster of energy. If all the barrels of oil that the U.S. uses in just one day were laid end to end they would stretch the from New York to Calcutta...