Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midst of a sandstorm that grounded all other commercial flights, a Libyan Airlines 727 bound for Cairo blundered into airspace above the Israeli-occupied Sinai Desert, which had been declared an official war zone. Israeli officials, worried by reports that Arab terrorists planned to use a civilian airliner in a kamikaze attack on an Israeli city, ordered up Phantom F-4E interceptors. When the French pilot of the jet seemed to ignore warning shots signaling him to land at a nearby military base, the Israeli pilots shot the Boeing down, killing 108 of the 116 passengers aboard. Tapes of cockpit...
...used you as tools of the Phalangist conspiracy. Do not obey orders! Do not shoot!" It was one of many efforts by the militias to persuade army troops to break ranks by dividing along sectarian lines. Such a development was not unexpected. Earlier hi the summer, a prominent Arab journalist in Beirut had predicted: "If the army has to fight the Shi'ites, it will break apart like a watermelon dropped on the pavement." Not only did the Lebanese army perform creditably last week, but, more important, it did not split apart. For the first time in eight years...
...threw all his energies into Vladimir Jabotinsky's aggressive movement pledged to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. After emigrating to British-ruled Palestine in 1935, Shamir entered the law school of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, only to drop out in 1937, as the Arab revolt against the burgeoning Jewish presence in Palestine intensified. That same year, he joined Irgun Zrai Leumi (National Military Organization), the radical terrorist group whose subsequent leader was Menachem Begin...
...path to power. With few career opportunities available to a non-Sunni, Assad entered the military academy at 22; by 25, he was an air force officer. Around that time, the ambitious Assad became active in the country's Baath Party, which advocates a mixture of socialism and Arab nationalism. After the Baathists seized power in 1963, Assad became general of the air force, then Minister of Defense. In 1970, living up to his name, which translates as "lion," Assad staged his own coup. Hisback as straight as a bayonet, Assad looks and acts like the military...
...London taxis are also showing up in other Arab countries. Carbodies of Coventry, the British firm that produces about 2,500 of the cabs a month, has exported them to Kuwait and Lebanon. The classic vehicles also have admirers in the U.S., where some limousine companies operate them. Says one aficionado: "They're so ugly, it's almost romantic...