Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touch base at least two or three times a week-more often if events warrant. "My approach with the President is very straightforward and direct," says Baker. "We communicate easily." In order to salvage the Administration's proposal to sell AW ACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia, Baker carefully choreographed the President's lobbying effort, even deciding details like which Senators should ride together to and from the White House. A special telephone in Baker's Capitol Hill hideaway-White House extension 806-gives him a direct line to the President...
Weinberger and Reagan accordingly sold AWACS to Saudi Arabia and reached an agreement to sell advanced weapons to King Hussein of Jordan (whose family came from Saudi Arabia at Britain's behest in 1946). In the process, the U.S. has simply given Begin more incentive to act intransigently and to defy America. Even Abba Eban, foreign minister in the Israeli Labor governments from 1966 to 1974, said at Harvard this month that "it is better to be alive than to be popular-because if I'm dead, I might be briefly popular at the funeral oration...
This sort of approach will probably be opposed by an American administration which tries to counter Soviet influence at every step. Still, Reagan's team has already attempted to betray the promises of Camp David by backing the "peace" plan of Saudi Arabia's Prince Fahd, which died last winter because it was not radical enough for the other Arab regimes. Having sternly opposed Camp David, and witnessing a growth in their influence anyway, the Arabs have no incentive to bargain on the only issue that unites them: support of the PLO versus Israel. P>Given the history struggle over...
...Saudi Arabia: The night that the Saudis had extracted the largest single arms sale ever from the United States Senate, its ambassador to the U.N. declared on national television that Saudi Arabia had already done "enough" for the Camp David process. What was "enough?" Nothing, save the isolation of Sadat and the unequivocal rejection of the accord...
Most of the entrants, of course, were United States citizens--but there are plenty of others: 38 from Japan. 15 from Bermuda, two from Saudi Arabia and one each from Australia, Belgium, the Dominican Republic...and more...