Word: dhahran
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...clock one morning last fortnight, a young Palestinian Arab employed as a senior translator by the Arabian-American Oil Company in Dhahran, was awakened by a Saudi Arabian cop. "Here's the list," softly murmured the Saudi cop, handing over a bit of paper with 72 names scrawled upon it. The translator knew what was expected of him: to check off a new batch of "undesirable" Palestinian Arabs on Aramco's staff, slated for arrest and deportation by royal decree...
...desert sands stretch north, south and west as far as the eye can see outside the efficient, modern executive offices of the Arabian American Oil Co. in Dhahran. The headaches that keep Aramco's bosses awake at night are largely conditioned by the sands, for Aramco, in bringing new riches to the desert, has brought new values as well. Last year all 14,000 of Aramco's Saudi Arab workers walked off the job. "Do you know what the strike leaders were asking for?" one of the bosses asked me. "It wasn't just raises. They wanted...
Aramco pays higher wages than anyone else in Saudi Arabia. In Dhahran, the company's headquarters town, an employee draws his living quarters according to seniority and job, not nationality. Aramco's Bedouin workers come off the desert and out of tents and go to live in air-conditioned houses. They have swimming pools hooded against the noonday sun and athletic fields floodlighted for night play. But as its Saudi employees learn to live more like Americans, Aramco itself becomes more Saudi. In its relations with the government and 53-year-old King Saud, Aramco maintains a policy...
...friendly vanguard of defense against Communism." Also, "Israel's support of the West, [which] is dependable, no matter whether or not that state is admitted into the Western alliance system." Gains "in Saudi Arabia have been considerable. Apart from the oil . . . they include an American air base at Dhahran...
...Mediterranean and into Turkey. There, in the vicinity of Mount Ararat, the West's defenses end-and Soviet opportunity begins. An offensive rolling through Iran and on to Iraq 120 miles away might easily overrun the West's advanced air bases at Habbaniya (Iraq) and Dhahran (Saudi Arabia). It might also outflank Turkey and open the back door to Europe...