Word: jidda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More recently, Bechtel designed the master plan for the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, then won the assignment to manage the construction. Now nearing completion, the airport will be finished on time and within the expected budget of $3.2 billion. By comparison, the King Abdulaziz International Airport at Jidda, built by the rival California firm of Parsons Corp., ran far over budget because of design changes before finally being completed last year at a cost of more than $4.5 billion...
...Amin Dada, all right, shapeless thobe robes, ghutra headgear and all. The onetime President-for-Life of Uganda, who fled from his country three years ago, has lived a relatively secluded and uncharacteristically quiet existence in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. From an interview with a Turkish journalist, Leyla Umar, it is evident that Amin is as feisty and fanciful as ever. He commented on President Reagan ("I don't like him any more") and told of how his fellow Ugandans pine for his return. The former dictator shed 20 Ibs. so he could beat his offspring in swimming races...
...last Wednesday's Senate vote; here is the Saudi newspaper Al-Jazira saying that Reagan belongs "in the tent of history" as one of the greatest American leaders "in recorded history"; here, courtesy of an enterprising AP reporter, is a quote from a man-on-the-street in Jidda: "Allah is my witness, the timing of the AWACs victory over Israeli lobbyists is replete with proofs the Almighty has awarded us a special gift...
...LEAST domestically, AWACs spell victory. Victory, as that perceptive observer in the streets of Jidda remarked, over the Jewish lobby. Victory, as the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. said on ABC's Nightline Wednesday night, over the Camp David accords. Victory, as Reagan's congressional strategists gladly acknowledge, for presidential prerogative...
...point, Al Haig came back and quietly sought out Kissinger. Just as he boarded the plane, Haig explained, he had been handed cables from the U.S. embassy in Jidda, wondering about giving a dinner for Nixon. My God, asked Haig, was Nixon going to Saudi Arabia? By this time, White House Aide Mike Deaver was calling 26000 with the same question. Kissinger agreed to ask discreetly what was going on. Ever the conspirator, Nixon threw his hands in the air. He was not sure, he claimed. He had invitations to visit several nations in the Middle East. Whether the Saudis...