Word: arabized
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After six years of bloody warfare with Iraq, a Moslem but Arab neighbor, the Republic has achieved most but not all of its objectives. It has liberated its occupied territories. It has crossed the international borders at three locations and now occupies Iraqi land equivalent to nearly 10 percent of its own territory lost to Iraq...
...Middle East, U.S. policy, to the extent that the Reagan Administration still has one, seems likely to be paralyzed as well. Moderate Arab nations friendly to the U.S. feel betrayed by the Administration's arms sales to Iran, a nation they fear because of its potential -- and unconcealed desire -- to stir up Islamic fundamentalist revolution outside its own borders. Says one veteran Arab diplomat in Cairo: "This Reaganite crisis will incapacitate the Administration. I am very much afraid we will have to wait two years (that is, until Reagan's successor is elected) before the U.S. can play a major...
Scholars said the international crisis threatens to destabilize moderate regimes in the Middle East. The involvement of prominent Saudi Arabians andpossibly members of the Saudi government in thearms transactions may cause a backlash againstSaudi Arabia in the more radical Arab world,scholars said...
Besse's murder took place as another terrorist drama unfolded in a West Berlin courtroom. Opening amid tight security, the trial of Palestinians Ahmed Hasi and Farouk Salameh brought forward evidence that the Syrian government was linked to the March bombing in West Berlin of the German-Arab Friendship Society offices, which left nine people injured. The trial provided a bizarre sideshow. Screaming and gesturing wildly from behind a bulletproof screen, Hasi claimed that "voices, sounds and music" were being piped into his cell to make him confess. The frenzied defendant is the brother of Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian...
Shadowy Middle Eastern groups like the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners were apparently responsible for the September reign of terror. But not this time. Discovered in the Raspail Metro station near the scene of the murder were leaflets printed with the five- pointed star of Action Directe, a home-grown, radical leftist terrorist group that is committed to waging urban guerrilla war against "bourgeois imperialism." The tracts claimed responsibility for the shooting in the name of Action Directe "Commando Pierre Overney," a Maoist worker who was killed by police in 1972 during labor strife outside...