Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also take issue with your suggestion that I am anti-Israel by calling me and Representative Nick Rahall "persistent critics of Israel." When I voted against the AW ACS sale to Saudi Arabia, did that mean I was anti-Arab...
...gained fame in his homeland, and infamy in the U.S., as the clerical adviser of the militants who held 52 American hostages for 14 months in Iran. Now Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Mousavi Khoeyniha, 44, has been given another mandate: to export religious revolution to Saudi Arabia...
...Islam's holiest rituals. His instructions: to foment agitation among the 2 million or so Muslims who will be flocking to Mecca in September. Khoeyniha will thus be Khomeini's agent to help promote the religious insurrection that the Ayatullah has vowed he will bring to Saudi Arabia and the other oil-rich gulf states. TIME has learned that Khomeini told Khoeyniha not to be intimidated by the more moderate clergymen among the estimated 100,000 Iranian pilgrims. "Disobedience to you," asserted Khomeini, "is disobedience to me." Khomeini exhorted Khoeyniha to renew the power of Islam, "which profiteers...
...disarray caused by the Lebanese invasion could lead to a significant realignment of forces. Because of his consistent criticism of the Israeli action, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak did much to redeem his country in the eyes of fellow Arabs. Moreover, Mubarak has developed an increasingly close relationship with Saudi Arabia, forming an axis of wealth and population. Together those moderate states could dominate the Arab world...
...Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, both for their "betrayal" of the P.L.O. and for their support of Iran in the gulf war. Since that conflict began 23 months ago, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has moved away from the hard-line states and into the circle of moderate states, which includes Saudi Arabia and Jordan...