Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King Fahd of Saudi Arabia likes to remain on good terms with his neighbors. That is not easy when Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is one of them. Still & angry at the Islamic republic for provoking riots during the 1987 Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia last week broke diplomatic ties with Iran. The move followed collapse of negotiations aimed at reducing the number of Iranians who will undertake this year's pilgrimage from 150,000 to 45,000 in order to help prevent new rioting...
...haul him into court. But back in Berkeley, an intriguing new lead has surfaced. Three months after Speer took the Star Wars bait, the lab received a request for more information on the bogus project. Postmarked Pittsburgh, it was signed by a reputed arms dealer with ties to Saudi Arabia. How could he have got the address? The only way, lab officials insist, was to have been in cahoots -- or at least in contact -- with the Hannover hacker...
...epic goods. It rips turbulent drama from the back pages of a high school history book. It serves up an opulent visual sensibility amid exotic locales. And it concludes with a humanism that affirms both continuity and change for the family of man. Can't-miss stuff. Lawrence of Arabia with a Manchurian accent...
...that threatened shipping in the Persian Gulf, officials in Beijing entered the diplomatic equivalent of a consent decree. They denied having made such sales but promised to make none in the future. The same officials are saying even less about another recently disclosed missile deal: the sale to Saudi Arabia of an undisclosed number of intermediate-range CSS-2 missiles capable of reaching virtually anywhere in the Middle East, including Israel...
...Saudis began searching for more powerful missiles than Washington was willing to supply after such weapons came into use in 1984 in the Iran-Iraq war. U.S. specialists contend that the most likely target for the CSS-2s is not Israel but Iran, whose leaders have repeatedly threatened Saudi Arabia. Israeli military experts do not disagree with the analysis, but are discomfited at finding themselves within range of Arab missiles. When asked about the Saudi arsenal, Yossi Ben-Aharon, the director general of the Prime Minister's office, replied ominously, "Israel has acquired a reputation of not waiting until...