Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Willie Morris, former British ambassador to Egypt, Ethiopia, and Saudi Arabia, said yesterday recent events have increased the likelihood of a full-scale war in the Middle East...
...Britain's Associated Television and WGBH-TV in Boston, after will televise it for U.S. viewers on May 12, was intended as "a serious and concerned journey into the Arab world," in the words of U.S. Executive Producer David Fanning, But within hours of the broadcast, Saudi Arabia reacted with a howl of protest. The Saudi embassy in London denounced the film as a "sensation-seeking piece of fiction" and "an unprincipled attack on the religion of Islam." What seems to have particularly offended the Saudis, besides the vivid re-enactment of the executions, was a series of scenes...
...disturbing point, though, is that Reagan not only makes repeated misstatements but goes on making them even after being publicly corrected (as with his exaggerated claim that Alaska has more oil than Saudi Arabia). The misstatements have proved effective; the crowds have cheered, and the voters have pulled the Reagan lever. The big question: Do the facts, after all, really matter...
...afford to live anywhere he wants in the world; in fact he has homes in London and San Francisco as well as a sumptuous permanent hotel suite in Beirut. One of the most successful of Palestinian businessmen, he heads the Modern Electronics Establishment, with headquarters in Saudi Arabia. Nasser, whose family founded Bir Zeit University, still dreams of returning to his birthplace. "I'll tell you why I want to go back to Palestine," he says. "I belong to this land. I was born there. I know the trees, I know the streets, I know everybody, and I always...
...began scouring the world for government-to-government oil deals. These permitted their national petroleum companies to buy directly from the producing countries rather than through Exxon or Texaco, for example. France now buys about half of its oil under long-term contracts with such countries as Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Mexico...