Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vance had two sessions with Sadat and one with Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy before departing Egypt for a four-hour stop in Lebanon, where he pledged $142 million in military and economic aid. Then on to Damascus for a 3½hour session with Syria's President Hafez Assad who promptly shot down the whole idea of the working group." In a 45-minute news conference, the Syrian leader explained: "There is a possibility that this working group would be looked upon as a competitor to the Geneva Conference, and I do not think that any of us would...
...Carter took office, Kissinger's innovative step-by-step diplomacy had stalled. Carter has been unable to restore the momentum and the region is probably closer to war than when he came to power. This week Secretary of State Cyrus Vance departs for a ten-day swing through Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Israel. He was not optimistic as he left Washington, and there is growing apprehension that the Administration will fail to make good on Carter's vow to move significantly closer to peace "this year...
...Lebanon and Greek-Turkish clashes on Cyprus. Their bitterest enemies are a group of restless thugs between the ages of 16 and 25 known as Raggare (for their habit of cruising around-ragga in Swedish-in big old American cars). According to one Raggare, the Assyrians are "blackskulls" who deserve to be attacked because "they live off welfare. They sleep until 2. They chase after our Swedish girls." Along with the gypsies and other immigrant groups, they pose the threat of social change, something that neither the hard-drinking, working-class Raggare nor many law-abiding Swedes are willing...
...illustrated his text by having an aide set up three maps. One showed how vulnerable Israel would be to Arab surprise attacks if it withdrew from the occupied territories. A second showed the relative size of Israel and the Arab world. The third illustrated the military situation in southern Lebanon, where Israelis have actively supported a beleaguered Lebanese Christian minority against Moslem-actually Palestinian-attackers...
Other passages are equally expansive. Followers of Moses who crossed the Red Sea, according to Numbers 34: 3-12, inherited a land that included much of present Israel and parts of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Some Arabs might judge the Lord's injunction to Moses in Deuteronomy 1: 7 as an early example of Zionist expansionism: "turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites* and unto all the places nigh there unto, as far as the great river Euphrates...