Word: jidda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary of State stopped first in Saudi Arabia to find out how much pressure the Saudis were willing to exert on Syria. It is the holy month of Ramadan, and Shultz had to wait in Jidda while King Fahd spent the day at prayer in Mecca. The two finally met after midnight. In the course of the talks, which went on until 2:30 a.m., Saudi officials made it clear that they were not going to lean on Assad; they felt that the Israeli-Lebanese agreement favored Jerusalem...
...grumpy pronouncement that they would not serve as anyone's "tool." Translation: With their characteristic caution, which often borders on gutlessness, the Saudis are waiting for others to do the work for them. That message came through when President Assad visited Saudi Arabia's King Fahd in Jidda, and was emphasized again when U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger met with the Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Sultan, in Paris...
...writing from Habib." In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat asserted, "I have in hand a document" containing the guarantee; he said he had received it as a condition for agreeing to pull the P.L.O. fighters out of Beirut. In a speech in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, Arafat charged, "I was tricked...
...around 8% a year, and there simply isn't any unemployment." Even so, it is not all that certain that the tradition-minded Saudis will want to move to Jubail in the first place. By and large, educated Saudis display a desire to remain in wealthy metropolises like Jidda, Riyadh and Dhahran, where easy money is to be found and white-collar jobs are plentiful. Yet to equip less-educated and poorer Saudis for the employment challenges of Jubail will take many years of social development that is now only in its earliest stages...
...reputation would suffer a severe blow. As the prime mover behind the project, as well as its master planner, the firm bears a large responsibility for Jubail's eventual success. At this point, however, no one is betting against the California engineers. Muses a U.S. embassy officer from Jidda: "If Saudi Arabia is any indication, Bechtel follows one motto: Think big. You get the feeling that if the U.S. Government had not thought of the moon landing first, Bechtel would have proposed the idea -and then sold it to someone." In Saudi Arabia, the world's most formidable...