Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cartel in Geneva, the Saudis went along with a pricing agreement that would lower the top prices charged by some members but would also increase the cost of Saudi crude by $2 per bbl. In the eyes of some radical Arab states, the AWACS deal does not indicate that friendship with Washington pays off in tangible security gains, but that the Saudis are becoming pawns...
...multimillion-dollar estate in Riyadh, Sheik Abdul Aziz Tawajiri, a commander of the Saudi Internal security force under Prince Abdullah, delivered an emotional warning. Its essence: Saudi Arabia's aspirations to pan-Arab leadership are incompatible with close Saudi-American friendship, so long as the U.S. remains Israel's chief supporter. Within Saudi Arabia, warned Tawajiri, "a generation gap is developing. Perceptions of the U.S. are changing, slowly perhaps, but for the worse." As most of his ten sons sat silently near by, the sheik, who is in his early 70s, asserted that they "have sizzling arguments with me. They...
...that you Americans constitute the greatest danger. The reason is your total alliance with Israel. The Arab masses feel abandoned by the U.S. and find it convenient to look to the Soviet Union instead. The policies of the U.S. often make it difficult for your friends to maintain that friendship...
...educated herself, reading widely and becoming fluent in Spanish, French and Italian. After returning to the U.S. in 1929, she studied philosophy under Bertrand Russel at Columbia, where the two became fast friends and weekly dinner partners. But Fenwick didn't appreciate Russell's anti-American sentiments, and the friendship soon ended...
...liberal views helped Fenwick strike up a special friendship with former New York representative Bella Abzug, an odd-couple combination, to say the least. Fenwick the aristocratic, cultured woman of wealth--an old friend of the Rockefellers and the Dillons--and Abzug, the tough and sassy daughter of a New York meat market owner...