Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minister from Iran, which is eager to boost its income to help pay for its 7 1/2- year-old war with fellow OPEC member Iraq, heartily endorsed the 5% solution. But Hisham Nazer, the influential Saudi Arabian minister, was cool to the proposal. His country's severing of diplomatic ties with Iran last week after years of conflict with its Persian Gulf neighbor did not help matters...
MANAMA, Bahrain--An Iranian speedboat shot up a Saudi Arabian-owned tanker in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, hours after President Reagan said the U.S. Navy will no longer ignore attacks on noncombatants in the Persian Gulf region...
Which is what Thesiger has been saying and doing in a big way for more than half a century. His adventures as an explorer and soldier in the legendary tradition of Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence are recorded in his books Arabian Sands (1959), The Marsh Arabs (1964) and The Last Nomad (1980). These celebrated works are distinguished by a direct and bone-dry style that balances Thesiger's luxuriantly romantic relish for tribal peoples and desolate places. The Life of My Choice says goodbye to all that and good riddance to the 20th century and its airships, land...
According to Texaco lawyers, the IRS claim relates largely to the company's oil dealings between 1979 and 1981. As a member of a consortium known as the Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco), Texaco bought crude from Saudi Arabia for $28 per bbl., even though the official going rate was $32 per bbl. The IRS appears to be saying that Texaco should have considered the $4-per-bbl. price break to be income and paid taxes on it. The other members of Aramco -- Exxon, Chevron and Mobil -- could also face penalties, but they have not heard from the taxman...
Those words hardly comforted the leaders of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, which met last week in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh to coordinate defense strategies. The six -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates -- fear that they will be drawn ever more deeply into the conflict. Iran has already launched Chinese Silkworm missiles against Kuwait. At the summit's opening, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd said the Iranians were "pointing their arrows to our chests instead of helping us to liberate Jerusalem from Zionist domination. There is no reasonable justification for this other...