Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said that by selling arms to Arab nations such as Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the Administration was not helping to bring peace to the Middle East...
Even some of Reagan's most platitudinous phrases were carefully tailored to reassure critics on specific points. Jewish leaders last fall complained that when they opposed the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia, the Administration seemed to be implying that they were putting Israel's interests ahead of America's. So Reagan asserted that "every citizens' group is guaranteed the right to speak out, and must be encouraged to do so without fear of reprisal or defamation. The language of hate, the obscenity of anti-Semitism and racism must have no part...
Fear of Iranian subversion in the region is one reason a group of four gulf states headed by Saudi Arabia has decided to contribute more than $20 billion in interest-free loans and billions more in grants to Iraq. The gulf states are also mapping a regional defense plan. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council has decided to create a joint armed forces command and a military strike force designed to intervene if any of the member states is threatened. So far, however, only Jordan has actively participated in the Iran-Iraq war. A 2,000-man Jordanian force...
...Saudi Arabia, which produces 40% of OPEC's oil, holds the key to any agreement that would keep prices from plunging still further. The Saudis could dry up the supply glut singlehanded by slicing their output, now at about 7.5 million bbl. per day, to 5 million bbl. But the House of Saud cannot go below 6.2 million bbl. per day without dipping into capital reserves to finance a variety of ambitious construction and industrialization plans. The Saudis are also reluctant to step out on a limb within OPEC. Says Lawrence Goldstein, research director of the Petroleum Industry Research...
...Amin Dada, all right, shapeless thobe robes, ghutra headgear and all. The onetime President-for-Life of Uganda, who fled from his country three years ago, has lived a relatively secluded and uncharacteristically quiet existence in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. From an interview with a Turkish journalist, Leyla Umar, it is evident that Amin is as feisty and fanciful as ever. He commented on President Reagan ("I don't like him any more") and told of how his fellow Ugandans pine for his return. The former dictator shed 20 Ibs. so he could beat his offspring in swimming races...