Word: arabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strategic Storage. One of the most critical functions given to the department was creation of a strategic petroleum reserve, a 1 billion-bbl. oil stockpile designed to offset shortages created by such interruptions as the Arab oil embargo of 1973. But when Iranian production was cut earlier this year, that reserve, which was supposed to stand then at 250 million bbl., had reached only 60 million bbl. Incredibly, DOE had not installed the pumps necessary to retrieve the oil from the Louisiana salt domes into which it was being pumped. Those pumps were finally installed last month...
...leader was obviously delighted by the warm reception accorded him in Alexandria Soon after his arrival he went to pray at the city's venerable Eliahu Hanabi Synagogue; it is the main center of worship for Alexandria's 200 or so-member Jewish community, which before the Arab-Israeli wars had numbered 40,000. Emerging from the synagogue, he was met by a throng of cheering Egyptians. To the horror of his security officials, Begin got out of his limousine to shake a few hands. Obviously moved, he later told Sadat: "I saw today the reality of peace...
...campaign to ostracize Egypt within the Arab world also stepped up. Last Friday four terrorists, led by what one bystander called a "tall, blond and tough-looking Palestinian," stormed their way into the Egyptian embassy in Ankara, firing automatic weapons. They seized 20 hostages, including Ambassador Ahmed Kamal Olama and his son. The terrorists demanded that Turkey sever its relations with Egypt and Israel, release two Palestinian prisoners in Egypt and provide a flight to a friendly Arab country. The gunmen, reported to belong to the Revolutionary Eagles of Palestine, part of a Syrian-backed faction of the P.L.O., threatened...
Last month, 59 prominent American Jews sent Premier Menachem Begin an open letter that criticized Israel's policy of setting up new Jewish settlements in densely populated Arab areas of the occupied West Bank. "A policy which requires the expropriation of Arab land unrelated to Israel's security needs," the letter read, "and which presumes to occupy permanently a region populated by 750,-000 Palestinian Arabs, we find morally unacceptable, and perilous for the democratic character of the Jewish state." Among those who signed were Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Saul Bellow, Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome B. Wiesner...
...that following his meeting this week with Begin in Alexandria, he would immediately consult with Carter and Strauss on how "to keep the momentum going in the peace process." He warned that unless there was tangible progress in the autonomy talks before October, the sixth anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the peace process could begin to unravel...