Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly propitious, then, that the Administration's plan to sell five Airborne Warning and Control System planes to Saudi Arabia was rebuffed in Congress twice last week. After four hours of debate, the House of Representatives rejected the AW ACS deal, as expected. But the wide margin of the defeat, 301 to 111, sobered the White House. The next day the Senate Foreign Relations Committee also voted against the sale, 9 to 8. Though the Administration had expected to lose that vote as well, Reagan lobbied committee members by telephone right to the last minute, and supporters...
...Administration is working to combat the far more insidious threat of Libyan subversion of the Sudan. It is trying to prop up the country's faltering economy by offering $100 million in nonmilitary aid this year and enlisting financial help from other nations, especially Saudi Arabia, and the International Monetary Fund. The strategic importance of the Sudan is undeniable: the country controls the headwaters of the Nile. Says one State Department official: "If the Sudan falls, Egypt follows...
...capita income of Egypt's 43 million people has remained stable at around $420 a year. With the peace treaty, Egypt lost economic aid from 16 Arab countries, including $2 billion a year from Saudi Arabia. On the other hand, it earned $2.5 billion on oil sales last year, much of it from fields in the Sinai returned by Israel; Egyptian workers in other Arab countries bring home about $2.7 billion a year; and foreign investments since 1979 have totaled $550 million. On the balance sheet alone, the Egyptian Establishment is likely to support Mubarak in his continuation of Sadat...
...AWACS sale debate. Saudi Arabia is a very close friend of the U.S. Saudi Arabia has increased its oil production for the sake of the U.S. and the West. The gulf is an area of U.S. interest and defending the gulf is in the interest of the U.S. The AWACS has no guns. It can't carry bombs. I'm astonished that Israel is raising hell against it. It's of no danger to Israel...
Each side claimed that the tragic events in Egypt last week made its case more compelling. Opponents of the Reagan Administration's plan to sell five AWACS surveillance planes to Saudi Arabia argued that the murder of President Sadat illustrated the folly of selling some of America's most advanced weapons technology to potentially unstable Middle Eastern regimes. Proponents answered just as vigorously that Sadat's death underscored America's need to support its few remaining allies in the area. Both arguments swirled in and around the Senate, where the Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled...