Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary of State stopped first in Saudi Arabia to find out how much pressure the Saudis were willing to exert on Syria. It is the holy month of Ramadan, and Shultz had to wait in Jidda while King Fahd spent the day at prayer in Mecca. The two finally met after midnight. In the course of the talks, which went on until 2:30 a.m., Saudi officials made it clear that they were not going to lean on Assad; they felt that the Israeli-Lebanese agreement favored Jerusalem...
DIED. William W. Caudill, 69, architect and a founder of the Houston-based Caudill, Rowlett and Scott Group, an international architecture and construction company; of a heart attack; in Houston. The C.R.S. Group's innovative designs include the U.S. embassy complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Harvard's Roy Larsen Hall...
Defense and Foreign Policy. Any Pentagon contract worth more than $25 million could be vetoed by either house. Any arms sale could be stopped by concurrent House and Senate votes; it was just such a legislative veto that nearly prevented the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia...
There is speculation that if the economic crunch continues, Iraq's military leaders and party officials might band together and ask Saddam Hussein to resign. But it is also possible that the prospect of an Iraqi collapse would so worry Saudi Arabia and the other gulf states that they would substantially intensify their efforts to keep Saddam Hussein afloat...
...Reagan Administration was saying little about the Middle East at the moment. Ostensibly, the U.S. was waiting for Arab moderates, notably Saudi Arabia, to exert influence on Syria to accept the withdrawal agreement. In truth, it looked as if U.S. policy was slowly shifting into an election-year mode. With the withdrawal agreement between Israel and Lebanon a reality at last, the Reagan Administration accented the recent improvement in U.S.-Israeli relations by inviting Begin to make his long delayed visit to Washington...