Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pines is also an expert on one other vital aspect of the entire Arab-Israeli confrontation: U.S. capabilities and what role they might play in the area. "In terms of U.S. defense priorities, no other region in the world, save for Western Europe, is as important," contends Pines. "It is now almost impossible for a journalist without a defense perspective to analyze events in the Middle East, especially after this settlement...
...will drop its demand for an Egyptian liaison office in Gaza and its insistence that Gaza Palestinians have an implied priority over West Bank Palestinians in achieving autonomy. These two matters will be dealt with in the next stage of Egyptian-Israeli negotiations. ? Israel will withdraw from the western half of the Sinai within nine months and will do so in stages, as Sadat had requested. In return, Cairo will agree to exchange ambassadors with Jerusalem one month after that phase of the military withdrawal is completed...
...deepest worry-Israel was isolating itself in an increasingly hostile world. It had no other powerful friend besides the U.S., Carter noted with unusual fervor. Sadat had made a startling gesture for peace and Israel still quibbled. The Arabs were growing more hostile, richer, and they have enormous manpower. Western Europe, thirsting for oil, was irritated, and some of its leaders, like France's Giscard, were downright contemptuous of Israeli behavior. Nobody, continued the President, knew what would happen to American sentiments if another oil crisis developed...
PART OF THE APPEAL of John Carpenter's Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13 lies in their essential vileness, and in the harsh, sly, single-minded persistence with which Carpenter strums and strains his audience's nerves. Assault on Precinct 13 is a kind of hipped-up, relocated Western: an undermanned Los Angeles police precinct station is besieged by a silent army of murderous street gangsters; Halloween is a scare picture about an escaped lunatic who, having returned to his home town Halloween night, stalks some high school girls babysitting in adjoining houses. The combined budgets of these two films...
...football, basketball and hockey were in varying stages of infancy or awkward adolescence. The date was still far in the future when ABC Sports would rush in a TV camera crew every time three starlets got up on skateboards. Baseball reigned coast-to-river, with St. Louis as its Western outpost, but the entire country knew it as the only game in town...