Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Back Door to Hell and Flight to Fury. The low-budget films had strictly limited aspirations, and still failed to fulfill them. So the dynamic duo turned to the latest craze, The Western; Nicholson wrote Ride the Whirlwind and Adrien Joyce penned The Shooting; filmed simultaneously on the Utah desert, neither was ever released...
Fulminations from radical Arabs were to be expected. Far more troublesome and discouraging is a sour mood in Saudi Arabia itself. Officially, the desert monarchy showered Reagan with praise for his staunch battle on behalf of the AWACS. But TIME editors on a news tour of the Persian Gulf region with U.S. businessmen heard a different line from Saudi officials, beginning with Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz, No. 3 in the Saudi hierarchy. "I personally am hoping for the failure of the vote today," he said only hours before the Senate roll call. "That would be an eye-opener...
...portents are mixed. The Administration still shows a propensity to opt for ill-considered military solutions to complex diplomatic problems. For example, the first reaction by Washington to the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was to increase the size of a U.S. training exercise in the Egyptian desert scheduled for November. Operation Bright Star is being scaled down, in apparent recognition that so suffocating a U.S. embrace could only embarrass Sadat's successor...
...emergency session aimed at containing the damage. Most of the OPEC members believed that they could eliminate the turmoil in world oil markets if Saudi Arabia would only lower its production. Saudi Arabia is the dominant member of the organization, producing almost one-half of total output. The desert kingdom has long sought unified and slightly lower prices in order to preserve its markets and prevent the consuming nations from seeking alternative energy sources. But since other producers would not agree to Saudi demands, that country has attempted to drive down the cost of crude by flooding the market with...
...average price of OPEC oil will change very little." In fact, for Italy, West Germany and The Netherlands, which obtain relatively more of their crude from producers other than Saudi Arabia, the decision will mean lower petroleum prices. The U.S. gets only 17.5% of its imported oil from the desert kingdom, but prices may rise because its other suppliers like Mexico-and even those in the U.S.-are likely to move up to the new unified OPEC price. The cost of gasoline in the U.S. is expected to increase eventually by about...