Word: dhahran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year, and there simply isn't any unemployment." Even so, it is not all that certain that the tradition-minded Saudis will want to move to Jubail in the first place. By and large, educated Saudis display a desire to remain in wealthy metropolises like Jidda, Riyadh and Dhahran, where easy money is to be found and white-collar jobs are plentiful. Yet to equip less-educated and poorer Saudis for the employment challenges of Jubail will take many years of social development that is now only in its earliest stages...
TIME'S Pentagon correspondent Don Sider has also learned of an additional oversight, not mentioned in the Holloway report. Sider reports that two C-141 Medevac planes were standing by at Saudi Arabia's Dhahran Air Base with twelve doctors on board to treat casualties from the team that was to have assaulted the embassy and the foreign ministry in Tehran. But no one had reckoned on the crash at Desert One that took eight lives and left four others badly burned. Incredibly, the Medevac planes were equipped for every emergency but burns...