Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demands by Arafat and Nasser for more support and solidarity. Arafat, who arrived aboard Nasser's plane, wants more money for his guerrillas and a straightforward declaration of support from every Arab League member. Nasser himself hopes to secure an increase in the annual subsidies that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya pay out of oil royalties to support their embattled brothers. The payments presently amount to $358 million, and before the summit Saudi Arabia and Kuwait demurred at any increase in their donations...
...cost of sending oil tankers around Africa. India must spend more for grain shipments, and its once profitable exports of iron ore to Europe are no longer economic. For its part, Egypt loses $300 million in annual canal revenues, though $250 million is made up in subsidies by Saudi Arabia, Libya and Kuwait...
General Francisco Pizarro (Robert Shaw) was, the way Screenwriter Philip Yordan tells it, obsessed by his own bastardy. As in the case of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, the burden of his illegitimacy weighed so heavily that it drove him to deeds of improbable and even reckless heroism. In the bizarre personage of King Atahuallpa (Christopher Plummer) Pizarro encounters a man of his own kind, an implacable and almost superhuman force. Atahuallpa gives short shrift to the rabid Catholic missionaries in Pizarro's party and, looking into the explorer's eyes, says tellingly: "Their...
...Government of Saudi Arabia has donated three million riyals (about $666,666) to the Harvard Graduate School of Public Health for additions to its research laboratories...
...John C. Snyder, dean of the School of Public Health, met personally with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia to solicit his assistance. Snyder said that the $7 million renovation and addition of floors to Harvard's Health Sciences Laboratories at 655 Huntington Avenue in Boston would have been impossible without the monarch's support...