Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legislation from the West Wing. But there is some question as to whether the same coalition that voted for his economic program will follow the President's lead on controversial social issues, like outlawing abortion, or on tough foreign policy questions, like selling AWACS surveillance planes to Saudi Arabia...
...having a coherent Middle East policy. Haig's patience was further strained when Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger assailed Begin's lack of "moderation," a more reproachful view than that of the State Department. So when Haig learned that one of his own ambassadors, Robert Neumann in Saudi Arabia, had joined the chorus of dissent, he decided to make his own feelings very plain...
...military experts argue that Soviet gains in the Middle East or Southwest Asia are more likely to be achieved by leftist subversion of established regimes than by armed aggression. Valuable though the R.D.F. may be, it would hardly have the capacity to prevent the pro-Western rulers of Saudi Arabia, say, from being toppled by radical Arab neighbors or by an internal, popularly supported revolution. But it may make those who would like to risk such a venture hesitate...
...Reagan's foreign policy advisers felt that despite the formal protests from the Arab world after the Iraqi reactor had been destroyed, many moderate leaders in the area were secretly pleased by what Israel had done. This comforting illusion also exploded last week: King Khalid announced that Saudi Arabia would pay for reconstruction of the Iraqi reactor (original cost estimate: $260 million...
McCloskey stands by his charges. He told TIME: "If this Israeli lobby is not challenged, and if Begin is not challenged, I think the interests of the U.S. will be seriously hurt." Already, says McCloskey, the lobbying against the sale of AWACS reconnaissance planes to Saudi Arabia is "some of the heaviest I have ever seen...