Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diplomats emphasized that they did not consider the latest Syrian rebuffs "a final closing of the door." They noted that only two Arab states, Libya and South Yemen, have joined Syria in denouncing the agreement, while Egypt and Algeria have expressed their support. Most Arab leaders, including Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, whom Assad visited two weeks ago, have refrained from taking a position...
...both thousands of miles to the north. Most blatant of all is the hypocrisy of the Arab states which proposed the Vienna conference, which pump 400,000 barrels of oil a day into the apartheid economy. And the Daily Times of Nigeria reports that even armaments destined for Saudi Arabia and Iraq mysteriously find their way to South Africa. Kenyan newspapers regularly carry stories of Arab investments in South Africa, and their widespread purchase-of gold...
...attempt to condemn Israel for propping up a system of racial discrimination also loses some of its luster in view of the progress the sponsors have made on human rights in their own countries. Saudi Arabia recently expelled five Europeans and Americans for attempting to hold a Christian service in their home. This is not as astonishing as the reported persistence in Saudi Arabia of Black slavery, an institution legally abolished in the early 1950s...
...strongly backing Iraq, which unlike Iran is Arab, in the 2½-year-old Iran-Iraq war. Egypt, which all but severed diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union in 1981, is on the verge of exchanging ambassadors with Moscow once again. There are even reports that Saudi Arabia's King Fahd has sent a letter to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov pleading for Soviet help in resolving the Iran-Iraq war. Andropov is said to have made a good impression so far on the moderate Arabs, particularly in contrast with the weak and vacillating Leonid Brezhnev...
...Syrian troops from Lebanon any time soon, it will press ahead in its dealings with Syria, hoping to find out precisely what Assad's price is. At the same time, the Reagan Administration is trying to persuade moderate Arabs to lend a hand. Shultz stopped over in Saudi Arabia to confer with King Fahd, but the Saudis emerged later with a rather grumpy pronouncement that they would not serve as anyone's "tool." Translation: With their characteristic caution, which often borders on gutlessness, the Saudis are waiting for others to do the work for them. That message came...