Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staunch supporter of Israel, on the operations of the Bechtel Group, the international engineering and construction corporation that the Secretary-designate has helped run for eight years at a six-figure salary. The Senator is particularly interested in charges that Bechtel, which has multimillion-dollar contracts with Saudi Arabia, forced its subcontractors to observe the Arab boycott of Israel. But even Cranston predicted that the hearings will be shorter than the five days devoted to Haig's confirmation 18 months...
...world's largest construction and engineering conglomerates. He became president the following year. Among its projects: the Hoover Dam, the Washington and San Francisco subway systems, 84 nuclear power plants, and the $20 billion Jubail Project, which is creating a new industrial metropolis in the sands of Saudi Arabia. Among his other duties, Shultz acts as a kind of secretary of state of the privately held, San Francisco-based company under Chairman Stephen Bechtel. His tasks as president of the group include coordinating international projects, articulating company policy and developing strategy for future markets. Half the company...
...Reagan, it's about Middle East policy." Even if Shultz does have a pro-Arab bias, which many of his colleagues deny, some question whether he will be in a position to display it. Bechtel lobbied for Senate approval of the sale of AWACS surveillance planes to Saudi Arabia, and American Jewish groups have already expressed concern that Shultz will be less supportive of Israel's security interests. Says Morton Kaplan, a professor of international affairs at Chicago: "Shultz is in a particularly weak position to put pressure on the Israelis. They'll use the Bechtel connection...
...senior P.L.O. officials quickly rejected the proposals, claiming that they had been receiving a more acceptable set of terms from the U.S. through Saudi Arabia (see Arafat interview). TIME has learned that both Faisal Alhegelan, the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., and Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, the son of the new Deputy Prime Minister, had been meeting with Alexander Haig prior to the Secretary of State's resignation, and with William Clark, the National Security Adviser to President Reagan. In separate sessions with the Saudis, Haig and Clark outlined the same U.S. position, but Clark appeared to the Arab...
...state of current negotiations: It is very important to know who has been lying to whom. It seems that communications have been confused, because I have some channels of my own with the Americans. One of my important channels is through Saudi Arabia, especially King Fahd. In my contacts with him, he was telling me that he felt the Americans did not have accurate information about what we [the P.L.O.] have accepted and what we have refused. I said it is so. He then asked me, "What about your channels in Beirut?" I said my channels are very, very accurate...