Word: bedouin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavy-handed, unsubtle and flashy. She alternates booming chords organized in the most predictable of charts, with grandiose runs up and down the keyboard which sound like pallid attempts to imitate Keith Jarret's flourishes. The arrangements do nothing to cover for Hubgaucheries. To evoke Arabia, Hubbard gives us Bedouin ritual music, calling up wailing strings. For a picture of Siberian wilderness, we hear martial strains reminiscent of the Dr. Zhivago score, followed by a short bouzouki solo...
...production and diplomatic progress on the Palestinian issue. During his appointed trip to Strauss Riyadh, felt in that fact, the the newly Fahd was deliberately distinguishing between the two issues by introducing them separately and without any reference to "linkage." A U.S. expert concluded later: "It was classic Bedouin hospitality to avoid controversial subjects during a get-acquainted visit." The fact is that Saudi leaders have said time and again for that past six years that there is an intimate connection between the oil and Palestinian issues. Arafat certainly talks like a man who believes he has that kind...
...probably a disappearing way of life in any case, but now its premature doom appears to be sealed. Last week the Israeli Cabinet proposed a harsh plan that would empower the government to seize 37,500 acres of Bedouin lands, with limited compensation but without right of judicial appeal, and to impel the displaced tribesmen to resettle into new industrial townships. The Bedouins have raised their small minority voice in protest, even vowing that blood will be spilled before the controversy is over, but thus far to no avail. When the Negev Lands Purchase Law receives parliamentary approval...
...Bedouins call such payments paltry. Scoffs one spokesman: "Eighty-three dollars-that's two sacks of flour." They protest the arbitrary denial of judicial appeals. Says Dr. Yunis Abu Rabiya, a respected Bedouin physician in Beersheba: "How can a country that calls itself democratic pass a law that denies the elementary citizen's right of appeal to the courts?" The Bedouins also charge that the proposed law is based on outright "racism" because it is aimed exclusively at Arabs. The Bedouins have a case: last week Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon began long and detailed negotiations to compensate...
...evacuated Bedouins could well have nowhere to go at all for some time. The four new proposed industrial settlements have yet to be built, and the government has no plans for temporary housing. Shrugs Benjamin Gur-Arieh, Premier Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs: "They can double up in their tents until the villages are ready. They're used to it." Opposition to the law is gathering force in the Knesset, but critics of the government are more concerned about the Bedouins' inability to appeal than about the terms of compensation. Says Begin's former...