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...adviser to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah blamed high gas prices partly on the lack of U.S. refinery capacity. Are the Saudis correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Gas Won't Get Cheaper | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...jealous type?" Jay Leno asked Laura Bush on the Tonight Show last week, just before he rolled tape of the President walking hand in hand with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. The First Lady said she thought it was sweet. Most everyone else this side of Riyadh was appalled. "It was like fingernails scratching on a blackboard, magnified 10 million times," the religious conservative Gary Bauer told me. "You wonder if the folks at the White House have any idea of the impact an image like that has out in Middle America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Hands-On Diplomacy | 4/30/2005 | See Source »

...they do. Indeed, the folks at the White House told me that the President and the infirm 80-year-old Crown Prince were walking on an uneven path in Texas, the prince reached out for support and ... anyway, to reject Abdullah's hand would have been ungracious, and the President will always choose courtesy over ungraciousness--even if the image conveys the subconscious message that the oily Saudis are so important to the U.S. economy that President Macho is willing to act in an unmanly fashion in order to keep them happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Hands-On Diplomacy | 4/30/2005 | See Source »

...seats" at the first such gathering in three years. The brocaded chairs intended for Syria, Lebanon, South Yemen, Algeria and Libya were empty. Of the remainder, only eight were filled by heads of state. Most notably absent was Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, who was represented by Crown Prince Abdullah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Empty Chairs | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid al Rifa'i and his Syrian counterpart, Abdel-Rauf al Kasm, apparently made strides in healing the long-standing rift between their countries. The two men met at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Syria severed diplomatic relations with Jordan in 1980, and the situation became even more strained after Jordan's Hussein put together his Feb. 11 agreement with P.L.O. Leader Arafat to reach a negotiated Middle East settlement with Israel. The signs of rapprochement between Hussein and Syrian President Hafez Assad raised the long-term possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Picking Up the Pace | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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