Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sheik Yamani is Saudi Arabia's representative to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), a cartel of oil-rich nations currently experiencing severe problems in the glutted market. The Saudis, largely viewed as the leader of OPEC, are the largest petroleum producers in the world...
...earn an honest living." Sodomy was long considered a capital offense, and the Marquis de Sade was sentenced to death for engaging in it. Hitler threw homosexuals into concentration camps. In recent years the resurgence of Islamic law means that adulterers face flogging in countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan. And down through the centuries, despite all the decrees, people have gone right on, of course, enjoying sex as best they could...
...what could have been a foreign policy disaster. As White House officials clustered around TV sets to watch deliberations, which were being televised for the first time last week, the Senate approved by the narrowest possible margin an Administration plan to sell $265 million worth of missiles to Saudi Arabia. Opponents of the proposal had one less than the 67 Senators needed to override a presidential veto...
...final Senate debate, Administration supporters repeated the familiar arguments: Saudi Arabia is a force for Middle East stability and moderation; it needs to defend itself against the threats of Iranian expansion and Islamic fundamentalism; it has had a security relationship with the U.S. for 40 years. Argued Richard Lugar, the Indiana Republican who heads the Foreign Relations Committee: "If the Senate were to cut the President off at the knees in today's vote, a very large loser would be Israel." His rationale was that over the long term, Israel benefits from a close U.S. relationship with some Arab states...
...appears in a three piece suit and sports a black leather attache case, he is a whirlwind, majoring in economics and chemistry. He took Chem 20 in his freshman year, five courses a semester from then on, and wrote a magna plus thesis on the chemical industry of Saudi Arabia...