Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influence in the region seemed to reach a new low. Under pressure from Congress, and angered by criticism from Jordan's King Hussein, President Reagan withdrew a request for Senate approval to sell $274 million worth of Stinger antiaircraft missiles and launchers to Jordan and Saudi Arabia. In an interview with a group of TIME editors, Syrian President Hafez Assad became the second Arab leader, after Hussein, to attack U.S. policy in the Middle East and particularly the influence of Jewish voters (see following story...
...traditionally are inordinately sensitive to Israel and to its backers in the U.S. And sure enough, a considerable number of Senators and Congressmen have expressed their opposition to the military aid to Jordan, as well as to the sale of 1,200 Stinger missiles and 400 launchers to Saudi Arabia. In fact, one group of Senators has already drafted an amendment forbidding such sales. The amendment might be attached to one or another important piece of legislation pending in Congress, possibly the emergency African food-aid bill, which the Administration strongly supports...
...Iran has fielded a half-million man army. Casualty estimates run into the tens of thousands. Iraq now seems to be using deadly mustard gas on a large scale. And a victory for the fundamentalist regime of Ayatolah Khomeini would directly threaten the oil-rich kingdoms of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Jordan...
...valve on Iraq's pipeline to the Mediterranean, reducing Iraq's oil exports to a mere 650,000 bbls. per day and its 1983 income to $9 billion. But with some discreet U.S. economic help and huge quantities of money from its Arab friends, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, Iraq has weathered its financial problems...
...defeat it might decide to use the Super Etendard fighter-bombers it bought from France last fall to attack Kharg Island, Iran's principal oil terminal. Iran has repeatedly said it would retaliate by blockading the strait, thereby halting shipment of most of the oil produced by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Iran. Last week Iranian officials warned again that if the U.S. and its supporters try to intervene in the war "their fate would be decisively worse than their fate in Lebanon." The U.S. has been urging restraint on Iraq to avoid any provocation...