Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saudi Arabia's internal stability and security. I would like to invite you to stay here as long as you like. Look around, so you can compare the situation here with any other place in the world. We consider the Saudi people to be one family. We are, of course, forced to bring in foreign workers because we need them in order to progress. This has been something of a problem, and it has affected security, but not in the sense of leading to crimes. Rather the influx of great numbers of foreign workers has affected certain habits...
...were not ready to commit themselves publicly for the sale. One was New Hampshire Republican Warren Rudman; nominally uncommitted, he was actually lobbying on its behalf before formally announcing his support. Another was Democrat David Boren of Oklahoma, who said he was leaning against the sale after visiting Saudi Arabia last April, but then began arguing in its favor with Democratic conservatives. Louisiana's Long had already promised the President his support if the vote were close. So had Republicans John Heinz of Pennsylvania and Robert Kasten of Wisconsin...
Another opponent of the sale who held firm despite White House pressure was Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin. He said that he found the White House lobbying gentle by comparison with that of interested corporations. A delegation of 26 businessmen with contracts in Saudi Arabia flew up from Alabama to tell him that a whole lot of jobs, including maybe his own, might depend on how he voted. Democrat David Pry or of Arkansas got a pro-AWACS call from Mobil Oil President William Tavoulareas. Seattle-based Boeing, which builds the AWACS, put pressure on Washington's Gorton. A week...
...Middle East, Europe and elsewhere. He has no interest in the latest call for an international conference by the Soviet Union, which two weeks ago granted full diplomatic recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Nor is he particularly happy about the complex peace plan proposed last summer by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd. The Fahd plan implicitly calls for Arab recognition of Israel in return for a withdrawal by Israel to its 1967 borders and the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. The Western Europeans, on the other hand, are impressed with...
...Geneva meeting was an emergency session aimed at containing the damage. Most of the OPEC members believed that they could eliminate the turmoil in world oil markets if Saudi Arabia would only lower its production. Saudi Arabia is the dominant member of the organization, producing almost one-half of total output. The desert kingdom has long sought unified and slightly lower prices in order to preserve its markets and prevent the consuming nations from seeking alternative energy sources. But since other producers would not agree to Saudi demands, that country has attempted to drive down the cost of crude...