Word: interests
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Saudi Arabia. More to the point, the U.S. and the West have a deep interest in maintaining stability in Saudi Arabia itself. Akins and others agreed that the U.S. could not let the Saudis and their oil fall into hostile hands. The country has some forbidding problems that could worsen in the years ahead. Though it does not engage in the kind of police terror that made the Shah so detested, the country is riddled with the same kind of corruption, which could eventually stir social resentment. Akins and others thought that the U.S. was asking too much of Saudi...
...Middle East fleet, more frequent visits by that fleet to friendly countries, and strengthening of the U.S. naval base on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean. The beefing up, he said, would serve "as a signal that we do view this area as an area of vital interest and would be a psychological bulwark to Saudi and Egyptian leadership...
...People are mad because they don't understand the system," Bloch believes. "The old and the poor do not understand why they should pay anything to anyone. Retired people complain about paying taxes on interest income. Middle-income people feel that they are grossly overtaxed because Government programs are aimed at aiding lower-income people...
Gold is hardly shocked. He is no stranger to doublethink. A literary hustler whose interest in Government is a sham, he does not even vote, a fact "he could not disclose publicly without bringing blemish to the image he had constructed for himself as a radical moderate...
That was the tale sent to newspapers in nearby Dallas and Fort Worth one April day in 1897 by a local correspondent named S.E. Hayden. It was generally ridiculed at the time, and most citizens of Aurora still scoff. "Hayden wrote it as a joke and to bring interest to Aurora," says Etta Pegues, 86. "The railroad bypassed us, and the town was dying...