Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...league with the sheiks against the consumer--and it was all true." But--he stresses--there is still a real oil crisis that Americans will not face, which has irreparably weakened the country by enmeshing it in a web of interdependency with foreign regimes like that of Saudi Arabia...
ONCE UPON A TIME, in the far away land of Arabia, there lived a princess fair. She fell in love with a commoner, but her family forbade their marriage. Then her angry grandfather, the king's brother, accused her of meeting him in a sinful tryst. The maiden of 19 years was shot to death at her grandfather's orders, and the commoner she loved was decapitated in a public square...
These events formed the basis for a television show which New York Times political columnist Mobil Oil has labeled "A new fairy tale." But the events are real, and they took place in Saudi Arabia only three years...
...speech as President, he praised the friendship treaty with Moscow and vowed: "Our party will continue to struggle for Lenin's principles." At the same time, Nasser Muhammad began patching up quarrels with his neighbors. Within a day of taking office, he sent a special envoy to Saudi Arabia, whose approval is essential for unification with North Yemen. That goal may be closer than ever. Replying to a friendly overture from Nasser Muhammad, North Yemen's strongman, Lieut. Colonel Ali Abdullah Saleh, expressed his conviction that "relations between the two parties of Yemen will be favorably reinforced...
...execution of a Saudi princess and her lover in 1977 for adultery, had already aroused a howl of Saudi protest three weeks ago when it was first shown over Britain's independent television network. But when the government-controlled British Broadcasting Corporation showed another documentary on Saudi Arabia that, like the Princess film, was highly uncomplimentary to Saudi royal life, Riyadh's wrath boiled over...