Word: jidda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...genuinely enjoyed Beirut since he moved there in 1984. Educated at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, he gave up a 25-year banking career in the late 1970s, after the breakup of his first marriage, to work as a shipping manager in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. Following a four-year stint as an employee of an oil cartel in London, Cicippio accepted the job at the American University in June 1984. "None of us wanted him to go, but he had made up his mind," said his brother...
...loath to clash openly with Muslim brethren, have decided to take off the gloves. Their wrath is directed at the Iranian government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, whom the Saudis blame for last month's rioting in the holy city of Mecca in which 400 people were reported killed. In Jidda last week Prince Naif, the Saudi Interior Minister, held a rare press conference at which he charged that Iran had plotted a "conspiracy" in sending Shi'ite Muslim "criminal gangs" to Mecca to foment trouble against the Saudis...
...JIDDA, Saudi Arabia--Iranians joined 2 million other Moslems in a pilgrimage procession outside the holy city of Mecca, watched by armed Saudi police flanking the columns and helicopters hovering above...
...style. His twelve estates around the world include a 180,000-acre ranch in Kenya and a $30 million apartment that takes up two entire floors of a luxury building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. He has homes in Marbella, Paris, Cannes, the Canary Islands, Madrid, Rome, Beirut, Riyadh, Jidda and Monte Carlo. His 282- ft. yacht Nabila (complete with helicopter) makes Queen Elizabeth's Britannia look like a package-tour ship. His fleet includes three commercial- size jets, twelve stretch Mercedes limousines, a total of 100 vehicles and a stable of Arabian horses...
While some segments of the middle class chafe under their restrictions, the kingdom's religious leaders constantly call for closer adherence to puritanical Islamic rules. Many of their strictures are directed at women. One recent decree banned them from riding alone in taxis or hotel limousines. In Riyadh and Jidda, black-robed women must board buses through the back door and sit separately from men. In some parts of the kingdom, a husband can divorce a wife simply by repeating "I divorce thee" three times...