Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every scenario in the unpredictable conflict seems to confront them with a different tangle of crossed purposes and confused allegiances. Conservative monarchies like Saudi Arabia have found themselves on the side of what has been a radical revolutionary regime in Baghdad. On the other hand, militant governments like those of Syria and Libya lean toward once despised Iran. "The Arab world is frustrated and troubled," said one U.S. intelligence analyst. "The moderate states especially see threats all around them...
...most fretful country is Saudi Arabia, the largest OPEC producer. Saudi leaders suspect that Khomeini was behind the seizure of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca last year, as well as subsequent disturbances among Shi'ites in their oil-rich Eastern province. In defense of their oil, the Saudi government last week put in a quick but urgent request for new military hardware from the U.S. Washington sent four highly sophisticated surveillance aircraft, which are known as AWACS and carry radar equipment sensitive enough to detect both high-and low-level bombers more than 230 miles away...
...only regional Arab state to support Iran was Syria. Relations between the two Baathist regimes in Baghdad and Damascus have long been antagonistic; Syrian President Hafez Assad is known to believe that dissident elements within his country are backed by Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq. Like Iran, Syria views the gulf war as an American-backed plot that could lead to its encirclement by conservative Arab forces. Thus the war has intensified Syria's already nearly paranoiac feeling of isolation. Assad, who in the past has rejected any formal treaty links with the Soviet Union, is scheduled to visit...
...already pinching off 3.9 million bbl. per day in exports from Iran and Iraq, and the continuing resulting shortfall will completely exhaust the surplus in about three months. To help ease the squeeze, Saudi Arabia last week temporarily boosted its own production by 900,000 bbl. daily, to 10.4 million. Hardline OPEC members like Algeria and Libya, however, have threatened to cut back their own output in order to keep the market tight...
Explains Melvin Stiles, the company's president: "Here in the U.S., either I or someone else in the company has direct contact with our customers. But overseas, in such places as Saudi Arabia, it is too expensive to maintain an office, so we I rely on a dealer. He's the person who I unearths the opportunities and makes I the sales. We offer our equipment I to the dealer at a discount off the list price, and his markup to the customer is, in effect, his commission...