Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beirut and its people, "then let them kill us all now and get it over with, and let you and the U.S. bear the consequences." Wazzan's performance was both heartfelt and effective. So was the telephone call that P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat made that day to Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, asking for his assistance in stopping the onslaught. Enraged by what Arafat told him about the ongoing bombing, Fahd promised to call Reagan and demand that the carnage cease. And so he did, reaching the White House scarcely ten minutes before Reagan got through to Begin...
...outset of the crisis, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig felt that Israel's invasion gave the unprecedented leverage with both the P.L.O. and moderate Arab nations. If the P.L.O. could be crippled as a military power, he reasoned, Saudi Arabia and Jordan might feel less inhibited in joining Egypt in the Camp David peace process. These heady ideas soon disappeared. Instead of seeking a general settlement of the Palestinian problem, Habib had to concentrate all ot his efforts on working out an evacuation plan for the trapped P.L.O...
Thcse intimations of American weakness have already reverberated throughout the region. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, the closest Arab ally of the U.S., called the State Department after the Israeli invasion and asked that Reagan "exercise a more potent role [and] shoulder his responsibility in full, for Arab patience has run out. In Kuwait, some members of parliament called for severance of diplomatic and economic ties with the U.S., including the imposition of an oil embargo. Tarik Aziz, a Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, told TIME...
...months of fighting. The vastly superior Iranian navy, which the Ayatullah Khomeini inherited from the late Shah, has effectively sealed off the vital Shatt al Arab waterway. With the exception of military hardware, which is flown in, Iraq's supplies must arrive by land routes from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Result: astronomical consumer prices. A quart bottle of drinking water costs $25. If you are desperate for Scotch, a fifth will cost you $300. One small tomato sells for $12. After a mediocre meal in a Baghdad restaurant the other night, four foreign diplomats split the bill...
...furbish and furnish. It is largely the inspiration of René E. Hatt, 55, a beefy Swiss developer known to the hotel's 280 employees as Le Big Boss. Hatt, whose Nova-Park chain owns Switzerland's biggest hotel, in Zurich, also has hotels in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia and Cairo. This fall the chain will open its first U.S. hotel, in New York City; it will occupy the Gotham, a well-loved 77-year-old structure that is being totally rebuilt. Its presidential suite will rent for $1,750 a night, plus tax. Le Big Boss, who studied...