Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 80 miles to the north, alert security men watch the crowd gathered on a basketball court in the town of Shfaram. Shimon Peres sits motionless through the introductory speeches, hardly understanding a word since they are all in Arabic. Peres knows that while the Arab vote will account for as many as 14 of the Knesset's 120 seats, Labor stands a chance of taking perhaps four of those seats, the rest going to left-wing Arab parties. "If you vote against the Jews, there will be no peace," he bellows into the microphone. "If you are serious, give...
These passages are numerous. Glashow is less than disturbed by French racism as he recounts his absolution for an automobile accident for which he now claims total responsibility. Driving drunk on the wrong side of the road, Glashow collided with an Arab driver, who was arrested instead of Glashow after the latter showed the police some official French documents...
Israel's increasingly alienated Arabs could net at least 14 seats in parliament if they unified their vote. So far, no one party has been able to capitalize. Many of the 320,000 Arab voters have traditionally chosen Labor, but this year some are looking farther left. Their defection could have a boomerang effect, swelling Likud's plurality at the expense of Labor. Three other leftist parties could account for as many as eight seats in the Knesset. Darawshe's new Arab Democratic Party, which calls for direct negotiations with the P.L.O., could pick up another. But he represents...
...past six weeks, three leading gulf producers -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates -- have opened their spigots, increasing OPEC's total output nearly 10%, to 21 million bbl. a day. Because worldwide demand for OPEC's crude amounts to only about 19 million bbl., the overflow has created a price-dampening glut. West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark U.S. crude, fell earlier this month to $12.60 per bbl., a drop of nearly $3 from its level in August and more than $7 from a year ago. The price edged upward last week, closing at $14.92 per bbl., reflecting expectations...
...United Arab Emirates was the next to flout its production quotas. Long dissatisfied with its limit of 948,000 bbl. per day, the U.A.E. announced last August that it would pump 1.5 million bbl., and now produces nearly 2 million. In response, Kuwait raised its daily output from 1 million to 1.6 million...