Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran could take Iraq out of the oil business for as long as two years. But even if warfare should paralyze the oil industries of Iran, Iraq and neighboring Kuwait, thereby removing about 4 million bbl. per day from world oil markets, the loss could be overcome by Saudi Arabia, which could increase production from its current 6.5 million to 10.5 million...
...costing the U.S. dearly in prestige Arab rulers who privately would welcome American assistance at the moment fear that they would only inflict damage on their regimes by appearing to be in league with the U.S. The Reagan Administration last week offered to hold joint milltary exercises with Saudi Arabia and any other gulf states that might feel threatened by the Iran-Iraq conflict, but so far there have been no takers. The most critical problem afflicting U.S.-Arab relation at the moment stems from the link that many Arabs believe exists between the U.S. and Israel's operation...
...dealing with a friend I can trust. We may disagree on what the best course is, but we somehow arrive at an amicable decision or compromise. I really believe Iraq is very, very important to the future of the entire area. It is the route to Saudi Arabia, the gulf, to the heart of the region...
...great division of Islam between Sunnis and Shi'ites began. Today the Sunnis account for more than 80% of the world's 750 million Muslims, but the Shi'ites who predominate in Iran, Iraq and Bahrain and who have unstable minorities in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Kuwait, generate fears far out of proportion to their numbers. . . . The Shi'ites believe that the leadership of Islam should have remained in the Prophet's family. The Sunnis prefer to make such decisions by consensus. The Shi'ites supported Muhammad's cousin...
Alarmed by Israel's mounting impatience, President Reagan dispatched an urgent letter to Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, noting that "we may be but a few days away" from an all-out Israeli attack on West Beirut. The Administration's chief concern was to secure Israeli forbearance until Reagan can meet with Foreign Ministers Prince Saud al Faisal of Saudi Arabia and Abdel Halim Khaddam of Syria in Washington this week. "The No. 1 problem is still where the P.L.O. will go," says an Administration analyst. "I suppose the issue will come down to just how much...