Word: arabize
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...requisite staples of the women-in-prison genre (making this the most lurid film Mikels ever made) as the girls engage in shower catfights, evade the lustful warden, and endure a bizarre paint-can-on-the-head torture session. They eventually escape to safety - and the waiting arms of Arab oil sheiks (again...
...Yemeni reticence, though, may hold some important indicators of the pressures weighing on Arab governments that maintain alliances with the U.S. right now. During testimony to the House and Senate Armed Services committees last week, the U.S. commander for the Middle East and Gulf, General Tommy Franks, apprised legislators of some brutal facts about the region: 19 of its 25 states were concerned areas of high risk to U.S. personnel. This despite the fact that the governments of most of these states are U.S. allies. And earlier this week, it was reported that the U.S. Navy has decided temporarily...
...Then again, the Navy's decision may be a recognition of a reality that politicians may be slower to acknowledge: that formal political alliances with moderate regimes in the Arab world don't necessarily make them safe for U.S. personnel. Israel is the only real democracy in the region, and most of the pro-Western moderate regimes on whose good offices both Israel and the West rely are not particularly reflective of the feelings of their citizenry - and if they were, it's questionable whether they would be either aligned with Washington or at peace with Israel. So, despite...
...Yemen, like a number of other moderate Arab regimes, might now be finding themselves circumscribed in their friendship with the U.S. for fear of rousing the ire of their more hostile citizenry. The latest Israeli-Palestinian violence has prompted fierce demonstrations throughout the Arab world against both Israel and the U.S. And that may leave not only Yemen, but most of Washington's moderate Arab allies, in no rush to publicly proclaim themselves U.S.-friendly...
...decade of restrictions that have crippled the Iraqi economy have done nothing to weaken the dictator's grip on power. The problem for Washington, though, is that it has failed to come up with an alternative strategy despite the fact that most of its Gulf War European and Arab allies have signaled their intention to end sanctions as soon as possible. That's left the initiative with the Russians, French and Arabs - and most important, with Saddam himself. The Iraqi dictator's refusal to budge on the question of U.N. arms inspectors makes it unlikely that the sanctions will formally...