Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...S.P.D.'s left was also incensed by a proposed $3 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, which would include 300 West German-made Leopard 2 tanks. In return, the Saudis promised to stabilize West German oil prices. Together with some party moderates, the leftists objected that the Saudi sale would violate West Germany's longstanding policy against supplying arms to "areas of tension" outside NATO. Schmidt stood firm. Karl-Heinz Hansen, an S.P.D. left-winger from Düsseldorf, went so far as to denounce Schmidt's policies as "filth...
...also means bringing con certed pressure on pro-Western members of OPEC, to recycle more of their petrodollars and petro-yen through the multilateral institu tions. Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC, has been assist ing the poorer nations of the Car ibbean basin, and Saudi Arabia spends about 3% of its G.N.P. on aid programs for such relatively poor Islamic states as Pakistan, Syria and Jordan. But Saudi Ara bia's vast wealth represents a global problem and not just a re gional one, since it has accumulat ed that wealth partly at the ex pense...
...chandeliers in the palatial $250 million conference center glittered brilliantly, and fleets of limousines shuttled among 70 newly built VIP villas. But no amount of extravagance could conceal the divisions that plagued the 37 Muslim nations represented at last week's third Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia's mountain resort of Taif...
Overall, the conference could have long-term significance: it enhanced the prestige of Saudi Arabia as a political power and marked an increased unity among Islamic nations from Southeast Asia to North Africa. Nonetheless, further dissension was evident in a number of other intricate issues taken up in the four-day convention. Among them...
...were like bookends," says one former colleague. Under Vance, Christopher handled more than his share of delicate diplomatic assignments, some of them at home. He was charged with rallying Senate support for the Panama Canal Treaties, for the sale of F-15 advanced jet fighters to Saudi Arabia and for the lifting of the embargo on arms to Turkey. He was also dispatched to Europe to explain Carter's decision not to deploy the neutron bomb, and last year's Olympic boycott over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...