Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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English Author Jonathan Raban, 43, has earned a reputation as a diverting guide for armchair tourists. His best-known travel books are Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth (1979) and Old Glory (1981), a Huckleberry Finnish, updated account of a journey down the Mississippi. With much of the world left to explore and write about, Raban has elected to make a voyage of a different and distinctly perilous kind. Foreign Land is his first novel...
...conference at the center on Islamic fundamentalism. Despite a boycott by about half of the scheduled participants, the conference took place last week. It was also revealed last week that Safran had accepted a more than $100,000 CIA grant three years ago to write a book on Saudi Arabia which was recently published by Harvard University Press...
Sources said Nadav Safran, director of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, accepted $107,430 from the CIA in April 1982 to help support his writing of "Saudi Arabia, The Ceaseless Quest for Security," published last month by Harvard University Press...
...tried to negotiate such deals for themselves, they were told to pay the official $28 price. "We would be very happy to buy at the netback price," said a source, "but they will not let us." As a result, the Japanese are gradually shifting their oil purchases from Saudi Arabia to other producers, like Iraq, who are offering deep discounts...
...less troubling for Mexico are indications that Saudi Arabia is taking steps that could lower world oil prices (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). The consequences would be enormous for Mexico, which draws 66% of its export earnings from petroleum. Last week's devastation is also certain to hurt Mexico's tourism industry, which provides crucial foreign-exchange dollars to help service Mexico's debt. Tourists are likely to stay away until normal conditions are restored in Mexico City and the hard-hit coastal states; accommodations will be tight until the many damaged hotels are repaired or rebuilt. On the bright side, neither...