Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tense milieu that the Arabs' "men of sacrifice" operate, in a defiant effort to exploit its instabilities to their own ends. The fedayeen, who owe no fealty to any government, are responsible only to themselves, and view any settlement as a betrayal and a disaster. They possess the power to sting Israel into repeated reprisals, and perhaps to whip Arab popular opinion to such a pitch that not even Nasser with all his prestige might dare a settlement with Israel. In Jordan, their primary staging area, they constitute virtually a state-within-a-state and could probably topple King...
...view of the Palestinians, Israel is an imperialist colonial power occupying their land. With no hope of driving the Israelis out themselves, the Palestinians aim to provoke Israel into taking over so much territory that it finally chokes on a glut of Arabs within its borders. Moreover, says Arafat, "the very process of Israeli expansion will extend the war of liberation into all the countries bordering on the occupied territories, and they will take up the struggle in defense of their own existence"-perhaps with Russia this time drawn in on the Arabs' side...
...cards were slowly tallied, Rafael Caldera looked more and more like a jolly green giant. He seemed likely to topple a strong party in power, a rare event in Latin America. Caldera's lead at week's end over Action Candidate Gonzalo Barrios was razor-slim: 40,000 votes with 400,000 yet to be counted. Yet election officials predicted a narrow Caldera victory, although one in which he would have to form a co -alition government...
...with the poet in Russia say that they are certain he sent the wire to the Soviet leaders. Evtushenko was so sickened by the invasion, Styron reports, that he told him in a dubious comparison: "Now we Russians are just like you Americans; we are part of the international power Mafia...
...remarkably steady 4% or so of the nation's gross national product. But just keeping lip with the G.N.P. is not getting ahead in the world. Since 1960, the U.S. share of world exports-one of the best measures of the nation's global economic power-has shrunk from more than 25% to around...