Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sharjah, United Arab Emirates...
...every weekend. In Nevada, U.S. Forest Service wood collection permits that once were free now cost $3.50; in California, they go for as much as $20. As one sturdy New Jersey wood scrounger put it, "Every log burned is a lump of caviar extracted from the mouth of an Arab...
...jump from its previous price of $18 per bbl., to $24, and it means still more inflation for the world. Other so-called OPEC moderates also posted increases. Venezuela, the cartel's fourth largest producer, moved from $20 per bbl. to $24, while Qatar and the United Arab Emirates went from approximately $21.50 to about...
...their middleman role, Aramco's American chiefs plainly have divided loyalties. From Chairman John J. Kelberer, a career-long Aramco engineering manager, on down, executives remain determined to do nothing that would anger their Saudi hosts or jeopardize the company's concession. During the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Aramco's executives not only did as they were told by the Saudi government, but cut back production by more than requested just to show that they were good Saudi corporate citizens...
...power alignment seems likely to emerge in Caracas: a loose coalition among Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait, the Persian Gulfs three biggest Arab producers, which now dominate the Persian Gulf trade as Iran sinks deeper into internal chaos. Instead of moderate price increases, higher production and cooperation with Washington, the outlook for the cartel as a whole seems to be for substantially higher prices, tighter supplies and increasing disinterest in whatever the U.S. seeks...