Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration has nonetheless had some success in trimming U.S. oil imports. In April they totaled 6.7 million bbl. per day, compared with 7.8 million bbl. per day for the same month in 1979. But energy independence is still fathomless barrels away. Last week Saudi Arabia, the U.S.'s largest foreign energy supplier, hiked the price of oil 8%, to $28 per bbl., thus narrowing the gap with the OPEC nations that charge about $35 per bbl. Defending the tattered and admittedly rather feeble fee to a congressional subcommittee, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller warned: "Backing away from such...
...episode, an actress playing a Saudi boutique owner confides that many smart Saudi women come to such shops for assignations. In one lurid segment, royal ladies are shown cruising a desert lovers' lane in chauffeur-driven limousines in search of casual amours. In fact, people familiar with Saudi Arabia assert that there are no such pick-up strips outside Jeddah or Riyadh, and that the whole picture of royal carnality in the film is a gross distortion. Reports TIME'S Beirut bureau chief William Stewart: "In Saudi Arabia, of all places, such a scene is unimaginable...
...produced by Britain's independent Association Television network and WGBH, the PBS station in Boston, the marzipan is the message. South African-born Director Antony Thomas set out to film a straight drama on the life and death of Princess Mashall, a lively young grandniece of Saudi Arabia's King Khalid. Mashall, whose arranged marriage soured, supposedly went to study at a Beirut university and there, by one account, acquired her lover, a Saudi commoner; the two were publicly executed in Jeddah (she was shot, he beheaded) for their all-too-public transgressions after they were caught trying...
...film, which was shot mainly in Egypt, are actors. What they say about the princess and the indolent ways of Saudi royals is distilled from what Thomas claims to be 300 hours of conversation with well-placed Arabs and other sources (though he spent only two weeks in Saudi Arabia itself). What irritates the Saudis, besides the film's presentation of many surmised events as social and historical fact, is the way it depicts the Saudi royal women...
Ever since he presented his national energy plan in April 1977, Jimmy Carter has been arguing that coal is the fuel of the future for the U.S. The Saudi Arabia of coal, America sits atop 25% of the world's known reserves of the black rock. The President's 1977 plan called for a 75% jump in production by 1985 to 1.2 billion tons annually. Yet as of last year output had climbed to only 770 million tons, and the National Coal Association estimates that the industry will produce only 972 million tons by 1985. Now, at long...