Word: jeddah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their crime rate, one of the lowest in the world. But recently an influx of low-income foreign workers-most of them Muslim-has caused an upsurge in crime, suggesting that knowing the laws of the Koran and that they are enforced is not necessarily a deterrent. When a Jeddah merchant left a crate of gold unguarded on the airport tarmac for two weeks, a Somali airport employee found the temptation too much. He began filching gold bars and selling them in the bazaar. Police caught him in the act and he was sent back to Somalia-minus one hand...
...Geneva. Repeating his statement to a Clinton, Mass., town meeting in March, however, Carter declared that "there must be a resolution of the Palestine problem and a homeland for the Palestinians." Assad agrees with other Arab leaders that the creation of a Palestinian state is required for peace. In Jeddah, meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd-who will visit Washington next week-suggested to newsmen that the Palestine Liberation Organization would be willing to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for a Palestinian state on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. U.S. diplomats, however...
Arabs are equally emphatic that Israel must give up some occupied territory-and give it up soon. In Jeddah last week, where they gathered under the auspices of Saudi Arabia's King Khalid, representatives of 40 Islamic nations approved a resolution to expel Israel from the U.N. General Assembly for foot-dragging on withdrawal and refusing to deal with the Palestinians. Anwar Sadat flies to Kampala, Uganda, next week for a meeting of the Organization of African Unity, at which motions similar to the one adopted in Jeddah will be introduced-but probably voted down. Many black African nations...
...expand their armed forces over the next decade by adding a mechanized brigade, at least one tank battalion, an air force wing, attack helicopters and coastal-defense vessels. "I do not know of anything non-nuclear that we would not provide the Saudis," says a U.S. military official in Jeddah. "We want to sell, and they want...
...Wynn once interviewed the future King in Cairo in 1947 when Faisal, then his father's Foreign Minister, was en route to New York for the United Nations session that eventually partitioned Palestine. No matter the longevity of the relationship, Wynn noted wryly in a cable from Jeddah, there was no special favor this time. The interview, from the King's point of view at least, was handled routinely along with Faisal's other problems of the day at a busy majlis, or royal audience. Wynn's report of the interview and its salient points...