Word: sheikhs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab diplomats and has no power base in Egypt?least of all in the military, which for the moment backs Sadat's initiative. So do two of Egypt's three token opposition parties. Sadat also received the endorsement of one of his country's highest ranking Muslim leaders, Grand Sheikh Abdel Halim Mahmoud...
...territory, cutting off the main Arab population centers from Israel. Speaking last week at the tenth anniversary of the settlement of Merom Golan on the Golan Heights, Sharon elaborated on that theme, declaring that Israel should settle 2 million Jews in territories extending from the Golan to Sharm el Sheikh at the southern tip of Sinai over the next 20 years...
...Saudi prince bought a $30,000 Rolls-Royce Corniche to tool around England with, and after two months gave it to his British chauffeur. Another likes to play with 16 hooded falcons, which go for $3,000 a throw. Sheikh Zayed of Abu Dhabi, President of the United Arab Emirates, has "a palace or two" in Pakistan, where he hunts for two months every year, and London digs with four-figure faucets designed by Godfrey Bonsack of May fair. Then there is the ruler of Dubai, who likes to hoist up his skirts-all the way-and then see which...
...Saudis made the offer after learning of efforts to establish the program in a letter relayed to them by Sheikh Ahmed Z. Yamani, a graduate of Harvard Law School. The Law School also sent identical letters to two other "small mid-eastern countries" Jerome A. Cohen, associate dean of the Law School said, but it has received no responses...
...demon, of course, is the fat, rapacious Arab sheikh whose grosslyextravagant pleasures are financed by the hard-earned money of the western people. Miles Ignotus is quite explicit in this respect, including not only the Arabs, but other Third World peoples as well: "military dictators and megalomaniacal kings of OPEC," "narrow self-appointed ruling groups (elections have become a rarity in Asia and Africa) fond of shiny black cars and numbered Swiss accounts," not to mention the by-now infamous "OPEC extortionists" and "Arab blackmailers...