Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These migrant workers, who now number almost 1 million, remain outside the main stream of Saudi life, since most leave when their specific job contracts expire. In Al Knobar, shops cater to the thousands of Korean workers with window signs reading KOREAN SPOKEN HERE. Saudis complain that the Egyptian and Pakistani workers are responsible for the increase in burglary in a country that boasts one of the lowest crime rates in the world (in part, because thieves are punished by having their hands cut off). On occasion, Yemenites have gone on slowdown strikes, while Filipinos, Pakistanis and Koreans have demonstrated...
...Saud, formed an alliance with Mohammed ibn Abdul Wahhab, the fiery leader of a puritanical Islamic movement; his Wahhabi sect still holds sway in Saudi Arabia. This combination of tribal military skill and religious fanaticism did dominate central Arabia for 75 years, until it was crushed by an invading Egyptian army acting at the behest of the Ottoman rulers in Constantinople...
...Nonetheless, said one American diplomat, "Dayan the pragmatist emerged. He told us, in effect, 'Let's not get hung up on 242 or on formulas, let's worry about what happens next.' " American officials took some encouragement from one Dayan admission: Israel now recognizes that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat cannot be expected to negotiate a separate peace. Dayan indicated that Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, the Israeli official who has had the most contact with the Egyptians, had persuaded his colleagues in Jerusalem that Sadat has gone as far as he can, at least until the Jordanians...
...symbolizes the U.S. as the patient mediator working to get the contending principals together. The issue has taken more of Vance's time than any other; he has visited the Middle East five times since taking office. Vance's gentle probing of the contending parties' feelings apparently helped inspire Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's "sacred mission" to Jerusalem. And although Israeli Premier Menachem Begin once lashed out publicly at Vance for saying that Sinai settlements "should not exist," the self-assured Vance, certain that he was right and was stating official U.S. policy, took no personal offense...
...WITH THE EGYPTIAN defeat in the 1967 war and the Israeli advance to the Suez in 1973, the Iranians and Saudis abandoned their previous policies and united to create the oil embargo and later to form the oil cartel. At the same time the Egyptians helped to seek an accommodation with North Yemen--the Arab Republic of Yemen, which subsequently sought relations with the Saudis. But Southern Yemen splintered and set up a Marxist-Leninist regime--The Democratic Republic of Yemen...