Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a stream of consciousness; we are never without it-the most ordinary and the most gifted. And through that stream flows much that is banal, tedious, nasty, insufferable, irrelevant. But some of us have the taste to let it flow by." After reading Lawrence of Arabia's translation of the Odyssey, Max, who pursued stylistic perfection like a grail, wrote: "I would rather not have been that translator than have driven the Turks out of Arabia...
WORLDWIDE CONTROLS on oil prices are being planned by Venezuela and the Middle East oil producing countries aroused by recent price cuts in crude by major oil companies. Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran formed the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to present a united front in dealing with oil companies, want to ban price cuts without prior consultation with producing nations...
SAUDI ARABIAN LOANS of up to $100 million, payable within 25 years at 8% interest, may be made to Japa nese companies to develop Japanese industry. Offer by oil-rich Saudi Osmar Trading Co. is a curious turnabout, since Saudi Arabia itself is still an underdeveloped nation...
...buyer,, they have set off a violent reaction in the Middle East, where Arab government revenues flow from oil royalties. Although Mideast production is up 13% this year, the Arab nations expect heavy revenue losses from the cuts; Iraq says it will lose about $20 million, and Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran, being bigger producers, will lose even more. Cried Sheik Abdullah Tariki, Saudi Arabian director of petroleum and mineral affairs: "It is a plot by the oil companies, not even remotely justified by the Russian challenge." When the Arab Petroleum Congress meets in Beirut in October, it is expected...
...invited the Shah's subjects to assassinate their king. Egypt's Ministry of Religious Affairs directed imams to preach sermons against the Shah as a "traitor to Islam," and Nasser urged his fellow Arab nations to withdraw their ambassadors from Teheran too. So far only Saudi Arabia has agreed, and on condition that all other Arab League nations made it unanimous...