Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the Government's indictment against Smalley, the Englishman conspired to ship 100 vintage 50-ton tanks to Iran by using phony "end user's certificates," which gave the United Arab Emirates as the delivery site. He allegedly planned to buy the tanks from an Army depot in Anniston, Ala. He is also charged with conspiring to ship 8,300 antitank missiles to Iraq...
...most popular man in Beirut last week may have been Captain Johnson. Arab-language radio stations were retelling the story of the American who stopped three Israeli tanks "singlehanded." Colonel Thomas Stokes, the Marine commander in Lebanon, said that Johnson would receive a commendation for his action. As for Johnson, he modestly called his sudden fame "a lot of fuss over not that much of a deal." On that point alone, the Israelis would agree...
News from the Middle East about the intentions of OPEC'S feuding members was confused and contradictory. Early in the week, Kuwait's government news agency reported that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates had agreed to trim $4 off their $34-per-bbl. price unless the other members of OPEC accepted new limits on their production. Two days later, the United Arab Emirates' Oil Minister denied that the four Persian Gulf nations were threatening their OPEC allies with price cuts...
...criticism, perhaps even hatred for Israel which the commission findings will no doubt engender, they should also spark praise. The report represents a victory for democracy. There are few countries in the world, and certainly no Arab ones, that would have initiated such painstaking procedures. Indeed, the Lebanese Christians--those directly responsible--promptly forgot everything. So, despite all the tension, Israelis can take pride and solace in having a system that works...
...crude. The Africans balked at boosting prices at a time of sluggish demand, and the meeting disintegrated into a raucous round of name-calling. At one point, Yamani reportedly shouted: "I am a man of the desert, and nobody is going to laugh at my beard." That was the Arab equivalent of saying, "Nobody is going to take advantage...