Word: oman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest dustup began when reporters aboard the Boeing 707 that flew Weinberger to Saudi Arabia, Oman and Jordan filed stories quoting a Pentagon official as saying that Weinberger wanted to "redirect" American military assistance away from Israel toward the Arabs. As soon as this appeared in print, another spokesman insisted that the message had been garbled; Weinberger wanted only to "redirect" U.S.-assisted Arab military efforts toward countering internal subversion, as well as potential Soviet threats. But suspicion was inevitably aroused in Israel, where some newspapers bluntly described Weinberger as "an enemy" because of his alleged pro-Arab views. (Haig...
After a quick stop in Oman, Weinberger flew on to Amman for a talk with Jordan's King Hussein, an old U.S. ally whose friendship has been waning since the signing of the Camp David accords 3½ years ago. The U.S., which has long been Jordan's principal arms supplier, has recently been concerned about Hussein's decision to order 320 SA-6 surface-to-air missiles from the Soviet Union. Even though that deal has already been made, Weinberger tried to sell the King on the idea of buying the U.S.-built Hawk missile...
...narrow approval of the sale, members of the Saudi ruling family declared that, contrary to the views of the Reagan administration, their true enemy is Israel, not the Soviet Union. More recently, the Saudis--who refuse to have anything to do with the Camp David accord--have implored Oman to deny the U.S. the rights to a strategically essential U.S. naval base, and have also favored a rapprochement with the Soviets. So much for the Administration's highly touted strategic consensus in the Arab world...
...Among those taping statements were the leaders of Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, West Germany, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Canada, Australia and Japan. The entire program was scheduled to be broadcast in the last five countries. Argentina, Brazil, Gabon, Mexico, Oman, South Africa and Togo were among other recipients...
Students of history find themselves confronting a rift among modern historians. Many, following the school of the great English historian Arnold Toynbee, attempt to systematize history, fitting it into a series of patterns and cycles with scientific elegance. Others, like Sir Charles Oman, contend that the human record is illogical, that history is a series of happenings with no inevitability about it. As Leon Trotsky once observed, cause in history "refracts itself through a natural selection of accidents...