Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equipment. Among the instruments recently spotted: a walkie-talkie with instructions in English, supplied, claims a guerrilla radio operator, by the CIA; high-powered range finders for rocket launchers; and silencers for automatic pistols. Some costs are reportedly shouldered by an international consortium that includes the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, Western diplomats in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad believe that the U.S. Government has refused to provide heavy artillery in deference to Pakistan's wish that the fighting be limited...
...loans were paying lucratively high interest rates of as much as 17%. Moreover, it all seemed so safe. Mexico's oil exports were rising from a paltry 200,000 bbls. daily in 1977 to 1.5 million bbls. in 1982. Last year, in fact, the country surpassed Saudi Arabia as the largest supplier of foreign...
...added that although the University cannot be said to have sold its honor" because the length of Khalidi's appointment is limited to no more than 10 years, "the University merely refused its honor for five to seven years in return for the million dollars from Saudi Arabia "He said yesterday" if appointments are going to be determined in that way then the University is being demgrated...that is the kind of thing that makes me bristle...
...conjunction with Palestinian spiritual leader Karim Aga Khan '59. Since then, Harvard Medical School doctors have dispensed valuable advice to Pakistani faculty. But Harvard's growing cosmopolitanism may turn out to work both ways. As events of last spring indicate, endowments and gifts from foreign countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, could develop into an important source of funding for Harvard programs. With that possibility have come questions about the conditions that could ride on such gifts...
...Keenan notes, there was little controversy more than 10 years ago when a Polish national donated the funding for the Jurzakovsky Chair for Polish Language and Literature, a chair currently filled by Professor Stanislaw Baranczak. "The thing that makes people ask question is that the money comes from Saudi Arabia," the dean suggests, adding. "If we had two grants from two Icelandic citizens, people wouldn't notice...