Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME'S article "The Jubail Superproject" [July 12] falsely compares the management effectiveness on the Riyadh and Jiddah airports in Saudi Arabia, one involving Bechtel and the other Parsons...
...pledges of support from the Arab gulf states, which remain highly apprehensive about Khomeini's Islamic revolutionary fervor. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz recently flew to Baghdad to offer generous assistance to Saddam Hussein. If a peace deal could be worked out, Abdullah claimed, Saudi Arabia was prepared to pay Iran for war reparations. Said Abdullah: "Any price in terms of money is worth it if we can get rid of this pestilence...
Physically, emotionally and politically they made a diplomatic odd couple. Towering Prince Saud al Faisal, elegantly attired in thobe and ghitrah, represented with cool reserve the oil-rich monarchy of Saudi Arabia; Abdel Halim Khaddam, a diminutive figure in an ill-fitting business suit, spoke excitedly and volubly for hard-line Syria, backed by the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, as Arab Foreign Ministers they found themselves calling together at the State Department and the Oval Office last week...
...agreement would be contingent partly on finding somewhere else for the P.L.O. fighters to go later. Habib, at Reagan's orders, took off last week on a swing through Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt (he will also visit Israel) to try to persuade those countries to take in some of the guerrillas. Saud and Khaddam made clear in Washington that their countries would agree to house P.L.O. troops only if the U.S. committed itself to speeding up negotiations for Palestinian self-determination. To the Arabs, that means direct U.S. dealings with the P.L.O., in exchange for P.L.O. recognition...
...Iran's invasion of Iraq last week. Arab ministers last month considered using their so-called oil weapon to pressure the U.S. and Israel over the fighting in Lebanon, although they ultimately took no action. Turmoil ranging from the fall of a key government like that of Saudi Arabia to the expansion of Soviet influence in the region could also shut off supplies...