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Saudi Arabia's delayed awakening began in August when nine employees marched into Aramco (the Arabian American Oil Co., biggest enterprise in the land) demanding "justice" for all the company's 15,000 native workers. After its first surprise, the U.S.-owned oil company agreed to hear the spokesmen (all of them, it turned out, educated at Aramco expense, two in the U.S.). Their demands: a living allowance of $240 monthly added on to their $42 minimum wage, "living conditions just like American employees," air conditioning for all Saudi workers' homes, substantial reductions in foreign personnel...
...They seemed less interested in winning gains than fomenting trouble. There was good reason to believe they were influenced by Communists, some of whose literature had recently been seized by Saudi police. Then to Aramco's relief, the government stepped in, took over the negotiations. At first, the Arabian negotiators listened openmouthed as the labor leaders attacked the "backward" government, then, recovering, they clapped the agitators in jail...
...Aramco (Arabian-American Oil Co.) employees may not keep dogs as pets. This is not a Saudi restriction; it is an Aramco ruling to appease the government of ailing, powerful Ibn Saud (Moslems consider dogs to be unclean...
...Recently some Americans smoking in public have had cigarettes slapped out of their mouths by Arabian police...
...recently somebody started shooting in earnest, and both sides admitted last week that there have been several small but nasty battles. The Saudi Arabians blamed the British, reported several casualties on their side, hinted they might throw the debate into the United Nations. The British insisted that Arabian caravan guards had started the shooting. The U.S., caught in the middle as a "third party" mediator between its British allies and its oil-owning Saudi Arabian business partners, had another small but serious trouble spot on its hands...