Word: arabize
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...help from some of the Arab armies, who were much more open to journalists than the U.S. was. If the U.S. Army was looking for us, we could hide in Arab areas. And they got us the best access to the battlefield for the great battle that never happened. That was the Battle of Khafji, one of the more important clashes of the ground war. I'd been having tea with an Egyptian general when his phone rang. It was General Schwarzkopf, and they had an animated conversation. Schwarzkopf told the Egyptians that a huge Iraqi assault was expected...
...failed to comply. Its legitimacy derived from the broad alliance of nations backing the effort. While they may have been skeptical of Western motivations - after all, it's not as if Washington goes about assembling international armies to force Israel to comply with U.N. resolutions - most Arab states felt more threatened by Saddam?s expansionism than by the projection of American force...
Clinton worked the phones to pressure the Palestinians--and to line up Arab support for the plan. "If you don't take this golden opportunity," the President gravely told Arafat during a call last week, "you will have no mention in history and coming generations of Palestinians will curse you." Arafat hung up the receiver and turned to an aide. "He's threatening me," the Palestinian leader said, twisting his lip with dismissive scorn. Other Arab leaders Clinton phoned voiced support for his proposal. But senior Arafat advisers tell TIME that many of these same leaders have been privately urging...
Djibouti and a few Arab states helped underwrite the peace conference and provided four-wheel drives for the President and Prime Minister, and a few thousand police uniforms. But big money from Western governments will be harder to come by. During the cold war, Somalia attracted more aid per capita than any other African state, first from the Soviets and then from the U.S. "It's true that we had a dependency," says Mahamoud Mohamed Uluso, a minister in the Barre government. But once the cold war ended, the money dried up. What followed made many donor nations wary...
...probably won't. While some Democrats (and a few Republicans) are sure to pinpoint aspects of Powell's professional life they're not absolutely comfortable with, most politicians realize that blackballing someone of Powell's stature and bipartisan popularity on the basis of an anti-Arab complaint is tantamount to career suicide. If, as several pundits have pointed out, Powell had given a speech to an Israeli group, we'd never have heard about it in the first place...