Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, Bache appears to have enough capital to meet any demands on it, and by week's end markets had rebounded sharply. The Securities and Exchange Commission began an investigation, presumably to determine whether Hunt had manipulated the market. Bunker, closemouthed as ever, was said to be in Saudi Arabia, conferring with his colleagues, and Wall Streeters were trying to figure out his position...
...sand has run out for these lost worlds. In Yemen during the late '60s, Thesiger watches as the medieval mountain fortresses of royalist chieftains are turned into rubble by Nasser's air force. In 1977 he returns to Arabia to find desert life transformed by oil. There are cities where tents once stood, motorcycle tracks instead of the hoofprints of camels, Arab schoolboys in flared trousers, and Bedu complaining that they are not getting enough government handouts. Thesiger is angered and dispirited by this seduction. His own independence and asceticism appear intact, and the only wear and tear...
...unjustified." American Jewish publications, reflecting Israeli opinion, were unimpressed by Carter's disavowal. Brooklyn's Jewish Press charged that Carter had sold out Israel for oil and described his action as a "stab in the back" to all of its readers. Reporting Carter's reversal, Saudi Arabia's state-controlled radio said acidly: "May God have mercy on his soul." The Kuwait daily Al-Anba called the President "a coward and a puppet in the hands of Israel." "Instant amateurism," snapped a British diplomat. A German colleague described the "incredible flip-flopping" as "intolerable...
When word leaked out a while back that Princeton University was discussing a $5 million research grant from the University of Riyadh, the Daily Princetonian called Saudi Arabia's consulate in New York and raised a sensitive question. Would Princeton faculty members sent to the Middle East face discrimination problems? The reply, according to the student paper: "We don't issue visas to Jews...
...posts-prompted a flurry of symbolic protests. These ranged from scattered demonstrations and Israeli flag burnings in Cairo to noontime traffic stoppages in Syria and general strikes among the Muslim populations of Beirut, the West Bank and Gaza. Even such moderate Arab states as the Sudan and Saudi Arabia expressed their displeasure, while spokesmen for the Palestine Liberation Organization blasted Sadat and the Camp David agreement that led to the normalization of relations between Egypt and Israel...