Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Less than three months after President Reagan offered his own plan, drawing positive reactions from much of the Arab world, the initiative appeared to be stalled. Last week, impatient that so little progress was being made on even the relatively simple matter of troop withdrawal, the Administration dispatched its chief Middle East negotiator, Philip Habib, back to the area. The U.S. had hoped that the 45,000 Israeli soldiers, 30,000 Syrian troops and 7,000 Palestinian fighters still in Lebanon would be gone by the end of the year. Now the Administration will be satisfied if the withdrawal...
...occupied West Bank and Gaza. Beyond that, U.S. officials are worried that Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, may not be in a strong enough position within the P.L.O. to enter into any peace negotiations now. Finally, the U.S. has decided that although such moderate Arab states as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan would like to take advantage of the Reagan initiative, they seem uncertain how to do so. At the moment, Washington's best hope is that King Hussein of Jordan, who is scheduled to visit the U.S. next month, will decide to join the talks...
...miles southeast of Beirut. Meanwhile, the Israelis and the Lebanese have not agreed even on how to proceed with the withdrawal negotiations. The Israelis want to talk directly with the Lebanese about all aspects of future relations between the two countries. The Lebanese, determined to strengthen their Arab ties, prefer to use the U.S. as a middleman and, for the time being, to limit any talks to military questions...
...hunkered down behind its own earth revetment. If the Iranians attempted to move toward Amara, they would invite the same decimation that they received in five full-scale attacks last summer, when wave upon wave of poorly trained Islamic Guards rushed across the flood plain of the Shatt al Arab toward Basra...
...Hussein has fended off Khomeini's appeals to Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims, who make up 55% of the population, to rise against the Sunni-dominated regime. To counter the appeal of religious confraternity with Iran's Shi'ites, Saddam Hussein has exploited traditional Arab-Persian enmity. But he realizes that Iraqis are sick of war. "We have tried all means, we have knocked on all the doors [to try to end the fighting]," he said last week. Iraq has repeatedly stated that it was willing to negotiate a peace treaty with Iran. The chief...