Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first it looked like a shrewd way to expand U.S. influence in oil-rich, pro-Western Saudi Arabia, without unduly roiling its troubled near neighbor Israel. But by last week the prospective deal had turned into something of an Arabian nightmare. By spelling out just what would be included in $5 billion worth of modern weaponry, which he intends to sell to the Saudis, Ronald Reagan set a time bomb ticking toward an explosive congressional battle over his foreign policy...
...shroud of insecurity hangs over the capital. It has been underscored by several alarming incidents in recent weeks. The first occurred in late January, when a group of pistol-packing youths forced their way into the United Nations staff house in the diplomatic section of Kabul, where a Saudi Arabian reception was taking place. The intruders locked up all the diplomats present, then made off with the building's sophisticated radio equipment, television sets and other valuables. The Saudis severed relations with Afghanistan after the incident, but the robbers have never been apprehended...
Police officials said yesterday that at least 12 officers from the University and Cambridge Police and the U.S. Department followed Sheik Ahmed Z. Yamani, Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum and mineral resources, during his visit yesterday. Yamani's personal security force also accompanied...
Yamani opened his stay by attending a board meeting of the Arab-American Oil Company in San Francisco. The company is "for all practical purposes a Saudi Arabian company" and the meeting was Yamani's principal reason for visiting the U.S. a government source, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday...
What of the future? Goodman does not indulge in hollow optimism or shrill pessimism. He is worried. If Saudi Arabia, which accounts for nearly one-third of OPEC's output, drastically cuts the flow, there will be economic depression in the West. On the brighter side: Saudi Arabian moderation may prevail in the Middle East; conservation and higher production in the West may curb the growth of petrodollars, increase confidence in currency and spur a greater sense of community. The bottom line of Paper Money is that, depending on those pesky exogenous variables, things could go either...