Word: arabia
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...domestic rivals but by another enemy, Syrian President Hafez Assad, and by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, both of whom enjoy Soviet backing and have helped Iran in the war. But Saddam Hussein's fall would cause great concern in the capitals of moderate Arab states, notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, which have been supporting Iraq. In consequence, the U.S. is also concerned. In a speech devoted entirely to Middle East policy, Secretary of State Alexander Haig told the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations last week that the course of the Iran-Iraq conflict "may lead to unforeseen...
...Iraq has been supported by a majority of Arab countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the other gulf states. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak declared last week that his country had provided arms and ammunition to Iraq after "we discovered that Iran was getting weapons from every direction." He denied that Egypt had sent fighting men to Iraq but acknowledged that "there may have been some Egyptian volunteers." Mubarak warned Iran against crossing the border into Iraq. He also declared that a forced change of governments in Baghdad would "not serve the interests of the region because it would lead...
...English had a genius for travel; they took their imperial self-confidence with them into the world. Some of them, like T.E. Lawrence, wanted to be someone else; like all intelligent travelers, he knew that landscape is an articulate moral category. He found a hard, almost fanatical clarity in Arabia, a purity that transformed the unhappy Englishman into a mystic desert hero. Other Englishmen and Americans, aloof, invulnerable, their servants laboring under steamer trunks and their gazes trained on cathedrals and Pyramids, traveled almost as a means of confirming their own moral superiority. They took their baksheesh back...
Just when Americans were getting used to cheaper gasoline at the pump, prices have suddenly started to creep up again. The reason: a developing squeeze on worldwide petroleum stockpiles and supplies. Production cuts by Saudi Arabia, the largest single oil producer in the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, have combined with a continuing rundown of excess inventories by oil companies to start wiping out the price-depressing effects of last winter's oil glut. Says Claude Messinger of Ashland Oil, who was the chairman of a gathering last week in New York of the American Petroleum Institute...
...firming international price of crude also represents an initial success for Saudi Arabia, which for the past two months has directed a high-stakes strategy to firm up the market. Saudi Petroleum Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani had feared that a continuation of the yearlong slide in petroleum prices could destroy OPEC. Thus, at the organization's March meeting, he succeeded in winning agreement on an unprecedented package of production cuts of 700,000 bbl. per day, or 3.8% of total OPEC output...