Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then Radcliffe had moved to the brink of merger with Harvard by agreeing that Harvard would manage Radcliffe's income, while in return Radcliffe's president would be granted the ex officio title of a Harvard dean. Student housing in both schools was to be integrated...
There is a certain political logic to the merger. The militant Arab states, and even many of the more moderate ones, were badly shaken by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's peace initiative. With Egypt neutralized, they would have a hard time presenting a credible threat to Israel. But a united Syria and Iraq, acting with the cooperation of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, would constitute what one Jerusalem official calls "a serious military defense problem along our northern borders." Moreover, the governments of Syria and Iraq are worried about the current upheaval in Iran and the rising militancy of Iran...
Some Middle East experts wonder whether the merger will last any longer than the ill-fated 1958-61 union of Syria and Egypt. Nonetheless, there are already signs of a basic change in relations between the two countries. Troops have been reduced along the common border. After years of vilifying each other's countries, radio stations in Damascus and Baghdad are broadcasting messages of homage and brotherhood. Soon pipelines will again carry Iraqi oil across Syria to the Mediterranean...
...merger plan represents more of a turnaround for Iraq, a country that for 20 years has been a kind of odd-man-out in the Arab world...
...merger with Syria is consummated, Iraq's movement toward moderation is likely to accelerate. Until now, Iraq has been one of the most adamant opponents of negotiations between the Arabs and the Israelis. But when Bakr and Syrian President Hafez Assad met in Baghdad last October, they agreed to base their foreign policy toward Israel on two demands: a return of all Arab lands occupied by the Israelis since the 1967 war, and the creation of a Palestinian state. Though neither Bakr nor Assad believes that the Israelis are prepared to make such concessions, it is significant that...