Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preface to the 524-page book, "Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security," Safran acknowledges research support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rand Corporation but makes no mention of the CIA grant...
...Other experts in Paris laid their own cultural claims. "I regard him first and foremost as an Arab thinker," said Muslim Professor Abderrahmane Badawi of Kuwait University. Huseyin Atay, who teaches religious thought in Saudi Arabia, agreed: "If you didn't know he was Jewish, you might easily make the mistake of saying that a Muslim was writing." Israeli Historian Shlomo Pines said, "Maimonides is the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages and quite possibly of all time...
...price war? We don't want a fight. It would be very hectic," said Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia's oil minister. But chaos is exactly what the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries produced last week when several members of the group threatened to launch an all-out campaign of slashing prices to boost OPEC's declining share of the world oil market. The pronouncement sent petroleum traders into a temporary selling frenzy. On the futures market in New York City, the January-delivery price of West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark crude, took a record two-day plunge...
Even before the formal proceedings began, Saudi Arabia's Yamani and a few other delegates issued informal price-war ultimatums. Declaring that all the world's oil producers should share in the burden of the oversupply, the ministers called on non-OPEC countries to cut back their output, or else. They apparently hoped their threat alone would make competitors fearful of a superglut and persuade them to slash production. But the message backfired. While it succeeded in panicking oil traders, the tough talk failed to frighten Britain or Norway enough to make them tighten their spigots. British officials said that...
...documents dealt with Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other "friendly" Arab governments, detailing their military capabilities as well as their methods of countering terrorism, the official said...