Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Urging the U.S. to increase its own military presence in the region, Begin indicated that he could welcome temporary U.S. "facilities" in Israel and possibly even in Saudi Arabia or Egypt. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has made a similar offer. Near Cairo last week, U.S. and Egyptian air and ground forces held a series of joint maneuvers called Operation Bright Star. The 1,400 Americans, the first members of the new Rapid Deployment Force to venture to the Middle East, were meant to familiarize themselves with fighting and flying in the desert. Said one U.S. officer: "We've found...
...Olayan Saudi Holding Co., a Riyadh-based-conglomerate that boasts revenues of $300 million a year from such varied sources as sales of International Harvester construction equipment and the distribution of Campbell's soups and other foods. An Olayan-controlled insurance firm, the first in Saudi Arabia, earned $101 million in brokerage fees last year; another Olayan outfit owns or controls 35 companies engaged variously in farming chickens, desalinating water and building Riyadh's new $4 billion airport...
Moreover, the steel market is suffering from excess capacity. In recent years, developing countries from Saudi Arabia to South Korea have rushed to build their own steel plants, thus cutting imports from the U.S., Japan and Western Europe. Brazil, a traditional importer, has even begun to export raw steel products. While steel production in the industrialized countries is expected to fall by 8.1% during the fourth quarter, it will increase by 7.1% in the developing nations. At the same time, some industrial countries like Italy and West Germany have continued to build new, more efficient plants, even though the international...
...battlefield carnage and destruction, the most conspicuous political casualty of the war may be the cause of Arab unity. The conflict has created a tangled skein of improbable alliances and rivalries. Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the conservative oil sheikdoms of the gulf are aligned with radically socialist Iraq; Libya and Syria, which have predominantly Sunni Muslim populations, have sided with Iran, a non-Arab nation of Shi'ite Muslims. Last week these tensions within the Arab world reached a critical point...
Following a series of bitter verbal attacks by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Saudi Arabia abruptly severed diplomatic relations with Tripoli. Gaddafi had charged the Saudis with "desecrating" Islam's sacred shrines in Mecca by allowing U.S. AW ACS surveillance planes to fly protective reconnaissance missions over the country's oilfields. The radical Libyan leader also called for a pan-Islamic jihad, or holy war, to "liberate the house of God in Mecca" - in effect, an incitement to overthrow the Saudi government. Saudi Arabia's normally placid King Khalid angrily denounced Gaddafi as "a Muslim outcast who deserves...