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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Brian D. Young, | Title: Harvard Lecturer to Help Plan Saudi Arabian Military Facility | 7/3/1975 | See Source »

LeMessurier said that the policy of the Saudi Arabian government was "taken seriously" before the decision to accept the contract was made...

Author: By Brian D. Young, | Title: Harvard Lecturer to Help Plan Saudi Arabian Military Facility | 7/3/1975 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Death for the Assassin | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Lifting the Lid on Some Mysterious Money | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

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