Word: dhahran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hajj passports for his people; there were fist fights in Cairo as devout Moslems elbowed their way into queues to get the necessary documentation. In Jordan, airline space to Jeddah was at such a premium that one group of rich pilgrims flew to London, caught a BOAC flight to Dhahran near the Persian Gulf, then chartered a bus to cross 780 miles of desert...
...years ago, Aramco brought the eye of television to Saudi Arabia. To enthusiastic audiences, its Dhahran station broadcasts an average six hours daily of Arabic and English lessons, prayers from the Koran, and such U.S. shows as Gunsmoke dubbed in Arabic, though Aramco censors out religion, sex and sadism. Most popular program: Aramco's local quiz shows, with TV sets and washing machines as prizes...
...shifting sands in 130° heat, making lifelong friends of sheiks and shepherds, princes and kings. Mastering Arabic, he began to handle Aramco's negotiations with King Ibn Saud's government, was named an Aramco vice president in 1958, president in 1959. Last week in Dhahran, smiling, sinewy (6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs.) Tom Barger, 52, was named Aramco's chief executive officer to replace retiring Chairman Norman Hardy. Says a colleague: "You just have to be easygoing to live for 24 years in Saudi Arabia...
...technicians in Saudi Arabia total 50,000, and Radio Cairo is the average Saudi's favorite station. As a counterweight, the government has recently been encouraging a native Saudi nationalism. Two months ago, Saud told the U.S. that it would have to get out of its big Dhahran airbase when the lease ran out in 1962. Recently, all non-Saudi taxi drivers lost their licenses, and Bedouins, according to one observer, "were hauled off their camels and into the driver's seat." The experiment left Riyadh littered with smashed cars...
...event of war, Dhahran might be useful as a place to refuel nuclear bombers or as a refuge for them after a mission, since it is a mere 850 air miles from the Soviet border. But a powerful clique of Saudi royal princes has been ceaselessly nagging the King to toss the U.S.A.F. out of Dhahran. The princes were eager to appease Nasser and other Arab nationalists who had used the King's sufferance of a U.S. base on Arab soil as an excuse for attacks on the Saudi royal family...