Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NICOSIA, Cyprus--Arab newspapers reported recent high-level contacts between Iran and the United States, and said the exchanges may have been linked to David Jacobsen's release from captivity in Lebanon...
...Arab diplomats, meanwhile, told The Associated Press that Jacobsen's release was connected to an internal power struggle in Iran. The 55-year-old American was freed Sunday after being held for 17 months by Islamic Jihad, a pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem group...
...newspaper quoted U.S. and Arab sources in Paris as saying no more American hostages were expected to be freed before the Reagan administration meets demands presented by Islamic Jihad...
...Arab diplomat who was formerly stationed in Iran said Hashemi had direct control over Islamic Jihad and other terror groups. The diplomat, like other Arab envoys interviewed by The Associated Press, spoke on condition of anonymity...
...because Shipler only looked at the Arab-Jewish confrontation in the small area in which Israel is hegemonous and the Arabs are the underdogs, it was perhaps inevitable that he would be so angered with the Israelis and sympathize with the Arabs. His outrage over domestic tensions in Israel, however, would be more justified if it were joined by even greater outrage aimed at the leaders and powerbrokers in the Arab world outside Israel's tiny borders...