Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...palace of splendid proportions is slowly rising. When it is finished, it will be the residence of Syrian President Hafez Assad. The lofty home is testament to the adroit ways of Assad, a onetime air force commander who has dived and climbed his way through the stormy skies of Arab politics for 13 years. It is also something more: a gleaming symbol of Assad's faith in his future as a major powerbroker in the Middle East...
...flooded with new cars. Shop windows are filled with food processors, freezers and videocassette recorders. At Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, long queues of vacation-bound Israelis wait to board flights for Europe and the U.S. Despite more than three decades of costly conflict with its Arab neighbors, Israel enjoys a standard of living that ranks near that of many West European nations...
...trappings of a modern nation. Most of Saudi Arabia's wealth, in fact, has been accumulated only in the past decade: with nearly a quarter of the world's proven oil reserves, the kingdom profited handsomely when petroleum prices quadrupled in the wake of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. In 1981, for example, the country collected an estimated $110 billion in oil revenues, up from $2.7 billion in 1971. Government outlays rose accordingly: spending is now running about $80 billion a year...
...have entered a legal phase. Two years ago, she was a Supreme Court Justice in First Monday in October. Now in Hanna K., a new political film by Director Costa-Gavrass (Z, Missing), she plays an American attorney turned Israeli citizen who takes on the controversial case of an Arab charged with persistently and illegally crossing the border into Israel. "It is an allegorical tale," says Clayburgh. Though she had little time to play tourist while filming in Israel, being virtually unknown there gave her a welcome escape from the pressures of fame. Says she: "It's especially nice...
...Lebanese Government was obliged, because of Syria and Egyptian premiers to allow the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to attack Israel from the south of Lebanon. At the same moment the other Arab countries refused this privilege to the PLO. That is how Lebanon (against its will) became the only country to be really at war with Israel, and the only country to be really at war with Israel, and the only country to receive the Israeli strikes. Every time the Lebanese Army tried to stop the PLO abuses in Lebanon. Syria threatened the Lebanese government, and sometimes invaded the Lebanese...