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...Last spring the Saudi Arabian government signed a $72,400 contract with a consortium of five Midwestern universities calling for U.S. professors to act as consultants to the new University of Riyadh. The consortium -made up of Indiana University, Michigan State University and the Universities of Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin-then submitted a list of 30 faculty members as candidates for the trip to Riyadh. The Saudis selected ten; among those eliminated were the only Jews nominated, two professors at Wisconsin...
...Saudi Arabian government requires that people must state their religion before acquiring entrance visas. The Foreign Ministry must specially authorize a Saudi consulate before a Jew is issued a visa...
LeMessurier said that the policy of the Saudi Arabian government was "taken seriously" before the decision to accept the contract was made...
...killed for the sake of Allah as dead, for they are alive beside him, resplendent in his favor and rejoicing . . ." With those words in homage to the late King Faisal, Radio Riyadh thus ended its announcement that Prince Faisal ibn Musaed, the 26-year-old member of the Saudi Arabian royal family who murdered his uncle, King Faisal, last March 25 (TIME, April 7), had himself been put to death...
...some countries-even those with strict laws against bribery-questionable practices have become institutionalized. Saudi Arabian law has stern penalties for bribe takers, yet some American executives say that any company seeking a Saudi contract must count on adding 10% for graft to the stated price. One U.S. executive tells of paying $3 million in bribes to win a $7 million contract in Iran. In Indonesia, the President's wife, Ibu Tien Suharto, is widely known as "Ibu Ten Percent" for the rake-offs she has reportedly demanded from businesses operating there. The South Korean government lately has openly...