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Feeling betrayed again, Sadat decided to listen to Saudi Arabian King Faisal, pro-American conservative among the Arab leaders, who assured him that a decisive break with the Russians would influence the United States to apply greater pressure on Israel. So in July 1972, Sadat told the Soviet military advisers to pack up and leave. Then he waited to see what the Americans would do, but nothing happened...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Do The Arabs Really Want Peace? | 2/7/1974 | See Source »

...Tyrone Guthrie writes about theater, Anthony Burgess examines the novel, Alan Lomax discusses singing, and Barnaby Conrad summarizes bullfighting. Although more than half the scholarly contributors are American or English, the authors come from a total of 131 countries. "A.S.A.," who writes on Mecca, for example, is Saudi Arabian Geographer Ass'ad Sulaiman Abdo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Circle of Learning | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...Netherlands but added hard-pressed Japan and tiny Belgium to their list of friends. That means that these countries will now receive oil "according to their actual needs," instead of only the same amounts they had purchased during the first nine months of 1973. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani added some conciliatory language. "We do not wish the nations of the world to suffer," he said. "We only intended to attract world attention to the injustice that befell the Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPPLY: From Output Squeeze to Price Embargo | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...Hussein. The latest hijacking was one of several that have coincided lately with international meetings among Arab government leaders and others who might find a formula for peace. On the opening day of the Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in Algiers last September, Black September gunmen attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy in Paris, took Saudi hostages, and finally surrendered in Kuwait. On Nov. 25, as an Arab summit meeting was under way in Algiers, terrorists seized a KLM jet over Iraq and flew around the Middle East before surrendering in Dubai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Divisions Among the Guerrillas | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...passengers and crewmen managed to escape, mainly through emergency exits over the wings. Many suffered burns, including one passenger who died later. But 29 more were trapped inside, including all eleven passengers in the first-class section. Among the dead: four Moroccan officials, 14 relatives of employees of the Arabian-American Oil Co. who were flying to Saudi Arabia for Christmas, and Mrs. Bonnie Erbeck, wife of the plane's captain, who often accompanied her husband on his trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Death in Rome Aboard Flight 110 | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

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