Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the hour-long lecture, Levy said Israel's position has been made tenuous by its proximity to hostile Arab neighbors...
British diplomats say Bush has written to Arab members of the coalition, pledging not to delay the ground war beyond this month. White House officials strongly deny that, but they readily admit that several Arab coalition partners are pressing the President to begin the land offensive within the next few weeks to bring the war to a relatively speedy end. Thus one central question in the decision could be bluntly phrased this way: How many American and allied soldiers' lives is it worth to cut off pro-Saddam sentiment among the Arab masses before it burgeons enough to threaten both...
Some lessons are hard to learn. Three times in the past two decades, the U.S. has been burned by its unbridled appetite for energy and its dependence on foreign oil. First came the OPEC embargo in response to the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. Iran administered the second oil shock six years later. Both episodes produced some national hand-wringing and a spate of conservation measures that cut imports in half between 1977, their peak year, and 1985. But when world oil prices collapsed in 1986, the nation's per capita oil consumption began to climb again, the fuel efficiency...
...town until 18 hours after fighting started between Iraqi armor and coalition forces. Early accounts of the battle came mostly from reporters operating on their own. One of them, John King of the Associated Press, sneaked into the city on the first night of fighting and watched as Arab troops tried to retake the town. "The pools did not get an accurate view ((of the battle)) because they didn't see it," says King. "They wrote that the Saudi and Qatari liberated the city, but they had no realistic view of how long it took, what happened or how many...
...later. The choice hinges largely on how well the air assaults are going. -- Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. support for the war will fall if casualties soar, but the equation may be more complicated. -- By defying the allied onslaught, Saddam Hussein is gambling on winning the soul of the Arab masses...