Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saudi Arabia's King Fahd paid a five-day state visit to Washington, the first by a monarch from the Desert Kingdom in 14 years. His principal message: the U.S. has a responsibility to use its influence in an effort aimed at achieving peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors...
...President Hosni Mubarak is due in Washington next month to ask for a boost from the current $2 billion to $3.2 billion. Egypt's parity with Israel is considered an important indicator of American commitment to moderate Arab states, as are proposed U.S. arms sales to those countries. Saudi Arabia is scheduled to buy 40 more American F-15 fighter jets, along with missiles and tanks, a sale the Administration intended to announce during King Fahd's visit to Washington next week. But after Rabin argued that the planes would shift the region's military balance, the State Department announced...
...Joffe and Lean have other qualities in common. They both understand how to capture history on film. Lean's films (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and now A Passage to India) synthesize a coherent narrative inside of a wide vision of history. Joffe has mimicked many of Lean's techniques, achieving a balance between the personal relations of the principals and their place within the larger historical upheaval. In one excellent scene, Schanberg tries to question an American official in a warehouse filled with Coca-Cola. Suddenly a mortar barrage blasts the warehouse of cans into gooey scrap, providing...
...team of legislative strategists have come through for Reagan at crucial moments. In 1981 Baker played a leading role in persuading Congress to pass the President's controversial budget and tax acts. That same year he helped win support for the sale of AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia. He was instrumental in grinding out a compromise on Social Security cuts with congressional Democrats. But the silver-haired Texan outdid himself last year when he managed to oversee the day-to-day operations of the White House while simultaneously helping run the Reagan re-election campaign. Baker cites the "49-state...
Such is the artistry of David I can. Throughout his 42-year career, including such films as Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia, Lean has been known for the intensity of his images. His newest effort, an adaptation of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, is another sweeping, superbly majestic movie, which conveys the plight of the lone, insignificant individual in a vast, inscrutable universe...