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...evidence last week when Bashir assisted his U.S. counterpart, Ron Nessen, at a White House press briefing. Nessen first tried to ban microphones and film crews from the session, but Bashir objected. And when Nessen got into a shouting match with a reporter over a question about Saudi Arabian antiSemitism, Bashir interrupted with a polite answer: "We don't indulge in the internal affairs of Saudi Arabia or the United States." Said one White House press corps veteran: "He could teach Nessen a thing...
...despite these University restrictions many professors have chosen to work for the Saudi Arabian government on their own. A.J. Meyer, professor of Middle Eastern Studies and an expert on Middle East economics, took a leave of absence last year to work on a five-year plan for the Saudi Arabian Central Planning Office. Although Meyer will not comment on remuneration for his work, a source in the Economic Department says that "Arabia is incredibly lucrative and Meyer would be crazy if he were not making lots of bucks from the Arabians...
...that plays prerecorded tapes. Things perk up considerably with the first picture, "The Gnome," a succession of subterranean squeaks and giggles that resemble a band of tipsy trolls frolicking beneath Frankenstein's castle. As for "The Old Castle," it sounds like a caravan of balalaika players pursuing an Arabian shawm virtuoso...
...studies at Michigan State and a member of the consortium's board, wrote to officials at Riyadh University, asking permission to visit. Smuckler, who is Jewish, did not get answers to his letters to the Saudis, and there was no response to his visa application through the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington. At that point Michigan State withdrew from the Riyadh project...
...consortium met in Chicago and voted unanimously to abandon the entire Riyadh project unless "an understanding can be reached" with the Saudis, preventing any ethnic, religious, racial or sex discrimination. Says David Johnson, dean of international studies at Wisconsin: "We are not really dependent on an infusion of Arabian funds. Even if we were, this organization is not going to prostitute itself for oil money...