Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seat was invented last year by two ex-soldiers in Israel, where 300 taxis are now wired. The device has been exported to Australia, West Germany and Saudi Arabia. The Israelis hope to start selling it in the U.S. by year's end. Expected price...
...American air strike against the sites would seem the most logical countermeasure. But the nearest U.S. fighter-bombers are on the aircraft carrier Ranger, cruising in the Arabian Sea 1,200 miles from Fao. The jets would have to refuel in midair, since the gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, are skittish about letting them land on their territory for fear of Iranian reprisal. And because the Silkworms are truck-mounted and mobile, there is no guarantee that the U.S. jets would have anything to bomb once they got there...
...week around Woodward's book. In chronicling Casey's six-year tenure as the nation's chief intelligence officer, which ended with his resignation and death earlier this year, Woodward provides new details about a cloak of covert CIA operations. Among the most startling: Casey had arranged with Saudi Arabia to assassinate Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, leader of the militant Lebanese Shi'ite faction known as Hizballah. The 1985 car bombing, supposedly financed by the Saudis, killed 80 people in a Beirut suburb but left Fadlallah unharmed. These and other disclosures drew a barrage of denials, as well as cries...
Trump's "open letter" ad read suspiciously like a stump speech. Calling for more "backbone" in U.S. foreign policy, the statement urged that Japan and Saudi Arabia be required to pay for the U.S. defense of the gulf. Trump, 41, disavowed any political ambitions. "I have no intention of running for President," he said. But he has plans to speak in New Hampshire, where a Republican activist is organizing a "Draft Trump" campaign...
...Friday, Iran for the first time launched one of its Chinese-made Silkworm missiles from occupied Iraqi territory on the Fao peninsula. The missile plunged harmlessly into the water off a Kuwaiti beach. Most of the ships hit by Iran were sailing to or from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, which are allies of Iraq. Iran also renewed its artillery bombardment of the Iraqi city of Basra. Late in the week the ship insurers at Lloyd's of London raised war-risk premiums for vessels sailing into the Persian Gulf by 50%. Oil prices, however, remained stable...