Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would take no action against Libya's 2,000 American residents, most of whom are oil-company employees and their families. Nor was there any indication by week's end that Libya, which ranks as the third largest supplier of oil to the U.S., after Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, planned to turn off the taps, for the very good reason that Libya has priced its oil too high and is having trouble finding buyers...
...clutch, my left leg starts shaking, and my back tenses up." He feels sorry for the older strikers who were near retirement and the younger ones who were "used to an interesting job and are going to end up pumping gas." Not all will. A recruiter from Saudi Arabia was offering $85,000-a-year jobs, with two-month paid vacations in Europe, to U.S. controllers. Some 200 picked up applications...
...Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd has offered an alternative plan that, for the first time, places the Arab world's richest and most influential nation squarely on the side of a negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinians...
...some extent, Western diplomats believe, the Fahd initiative is an expression of a rivalry of sorts between Saudi Arabia and Egypt for greater U.S. backing. Indeed, Sadat airily dismissed Fahd's proposals as "nothing new," although they obviously were more than that...
Sadat also urged the U.S. to build upon Saudi Arabia's recent cooperation in forging the Lebanese ceasefire. Even though the Saudis have berated Sadat for signing the Camp David accords, he urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to support Reagan's proposal to sell Saudi Arabia five new AWACS surveillance planes. For his part, Reagan stressed the importance of bringing moderate Arab nations, particularly the Saudis, into the peace process. Said he: "We have to convince them that we can be allied with them as we are with Israel and that we're not biased...