Word: bishara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Terzi had met to Newsweek magazine. That prompted a query to the State Department. This was the first that Foggy Bottom had heard of the matter and Young was asked for an explanation. His story: he had been out strolling with his son, decided to stop in to see Bishara, and there accidentally found Terzi, with whom he engaged in nothing more than "15 or 20 minutes of social amenities." Later, when this account was branded a lie, Young did some semantic acrobatics. "I did not lie, I didn't tell all of the truth. I prefaced my remark...
...offered the U.S. their million-barrel-a-day oil production bonus-or "Fourth of July present," as King Khalid described it at the time. Kuwait was brought in on the deal to make use of the abilities of its representative on the current U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Abdalla Yaccoub Bishara...
...Bishara was equally pessimistic about the prospects of his own country, Kuwait. "The dynamics of the area reject the establishment of small states on the periphery of the Middle East," he said, and he does not expect Kuwait to exist as a separate political entity after 80 years...
...response to a question, Bishara said he welcomes American blacks as a "natural ally" of the Arab world. He said black construction firms have been awarded contracts in the Middle East, and black leaders have been invited to tour Arab countries...
Challenged by David Landes, acting master of Dunster House, about Kuwait's vote on the United Nations resolution that equated zionism and racism, Bishara said "according to the United Nations definition of racism, Zionism is racial discrimination...