Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Fazlur R. Khan, 52, Bangladesh-born structural engineer whose ingenious "bundled tube" design was applied to the construction of Chicago's 1,804-ft., 110-story Sears Tower, the world's tallest building; of a heart attack; in Saudi Arabia. Khan's innovative approach brought together narrow, silo-like structures to form a thicker tower, thus doing away with the conventional skeleton frame...
...published in 1970 in response to the '67 war--goes a long way in weeding out the propaganda bellowing forth from all sides. Needless to say, however, the report contains flaws. The Committee avoids the subject of Libya like the plague and only mentions Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia in the context of the Palestinian problem. Moreover, the report stands as a foreigner's testimony--only Americans sit on the Committee...
...deal, OPEC's total daily output is expected to drop from the early March level of 18.2 million bbl. to 17.5 million bbl. Some 500,000 bbl. of the cut will be sustained by Saudi Arabia, the cartel's largest single producer, with the remaining 200,000 bbl. being spread among other members. The group agreed to review its pricing and production arrangements in several weeks, when the organization's members gather for a previously scheduled spring conference in Quito, Ecuador. Said OPEC President Mani Said al-Oteiba of the United Arab Emirates: "If need...
...discount is Iran. The Tehran government's prices range from $30 to $32 per bbl., but the revolution-racked regime is having difficulty producing enough oil to export. Before the fall of the Shah in 1979, Iran was the second largest producer in OPEC after Saudi Arabia...
...Doctor," reproves the Black Lion of Uganda, "for an African you are looking very white." Statesman, sportsman, raconteur, eccentric gourmet, General Idi Amin Dada made a lot of people blanch in his eight years as Uganda's dictator. With Amin now in asylum in Saudi Arabia, Director Sharad Patel has felt free to turn this biopic into a minstrel show of atrocity. Amin struts across his domain like Kong with a salad of Day-Glo medals pinned to his chest. Amin expels Asian workers from Uganda and distributes the spoils to his private army of hitmen. Amin services...