Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dhabi who acquired control of B.C.C.I. for $1 billion last year, was still fuming because the clampdown shuttered the bank without warning just as he was planning to restructure it. "He will do nothing unless there is incredible political pressure that he simply cannot resist," says a highly placed Arab banker...
...owners. B.C.C.I. then used First American shares as collateral for sham loans that produced phony income. Clifford, meanwhile, regularly briefed Abedi and Kamal Adham, a major B.C.C.I. shareholder from Saudi Arabia, on First American's operations. Clifford said the meetings were needed to keep B.C.C.I., as adviser to the Arab owners of First American, informed about the U.S. firm...
...last Saturday of yet another U.N. inspection team in Baghdad gives Saddam additional breathing space. But the truth is that the current appetite for renewed warfare is slight. Bush does not want to seem trigger-happy when he arrives in Moscow this week for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. And Arab allies, whose cooperation is crucial to any Middle East peace conference, have signaled their distaste for new bombardments. "Most of our people think the Iraqis have suffered enough already," says a senior Egyptian diplomat...
...traditional pessimism. Centuries-old attitudes have not changed, new alliances have not jelled, and the historic suspicion of Western influence has receded only slightly. Even a joint defense force to deter future invasions has proved impossible to fashion; such is the distrust among the gulf states and their Arab neighbors. A Middle East peace conference may finally be held, but its success is far from assured. Its convocation would owe as much to the end of the cold war as to the end of the gulf war, and to Israel's need for U.S. aid in the settling of Soviet...
...what everyone calls "the bad countries," the nations whose leaders supported Saddam Hussein or who remained neutral. To the best of Kuwait's ability, almost all of these expatriates will be driven out or refused permission to return. It does not matter if they were born in Kuwait. The Arab way holds: you are what your parents or grandparents are. If they came from Iraq or Jordan, Yemen or the Sudan, your nationality is theirs -- which in today's Kuwait is crime enough...