Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is likely to reorganize its personnel this fall, and some police sources said the move comes in part because of a major protection operation for a Saudi Arabian prince...
...photograph them in a public place, according to the two reporters involved. On another occasion, they ignored a threat made to a reporter's life--again, according to the reporter. Instead of responding to the situation, our reporter said the officers found it more important to escort the Saudi Arabian who made the threat to his limousine...
About 100,000 U.S. soldiers are dug into the Saudi Arabian desert south of the Kuwaiti border along with several thousand Arab troops. Scores of U.S. and other warships have assembled in the Persian Gulf region, where they are enforcing the U.N.-sanctioned embargo on trade with Iraq...
...Saddam may be betting that tensions and disagreements will develop between European capitals and Washington, between the Western and Arab states. International resolve could well weaken, or the Arab man in the street might grow restive under the heavy foreign presence. After a year in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula, the huge army taking shape there is likely to be run down and frustrated...
...that is an optimistic scenario. Continuing large price boosts, especially if produced by a protracted war on the Arabian Peninsula, could bring what a government official calls a "deep, deep recession." Worse yet, it would be an inflationary recession. Oil-price increases push up the cost of not only gasoline and heating fuel but also everything else made from petrochemicals: detergents, paint, ink, plastics and anything packaged in them, to name only a few. Anthony Vignola, chief economist of the Kidder Peabody brokerage firm, figures that if the recent rise of crude oil to almost...