Word: jidda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regime. Robert Niczewski Warsaw The myth about the strength of the Soviet military was carefully nurtured by the West in order to build up its own military-industrial might. The debacle the Russians suffered at the hands of the Chechens has brought this lie to the fore. Jaffer Khoonjee Jidda, Saudi Arabia Yeltsin and his gang of war psychotics are reviving Stalin's era of mass genocides and forced relocation. The Chechnya invasion will certainly provoke more revolts by local and neighboring armies while
Last week: A chartered plane carrying 247 Muslims home to Nigeria crashed leaving Jidda, killing all aboard...
...camouflage-clad American troops with automatic rifles slung over their shoulders have all but disappeared from the streets of Riyadh. In the cool evening hours, Saudi families once again browse in the stores, examining electronic gadgets and comparing the latest imported luxury cars. In Jidda, gateway to the Muslim shrines of Mecca and Medina, preparations are well under way to accommodate the 2 million pilgrims expected during this month's hajj. Says an adviser to a senior Saudi minister: "We feel a cloud has been lifted from over our land...
...vigilantes, mostly semi-educated young men bitterly opposed to Western values, have broken into compounds in Riyadh and Jidda to threaten and arrest Westerners drinking home-brewed liquor in defiance of the ban on alcohol. A women's tennis tournament in Riyadh was halted when the mutawain learned of it. The government advised an oil-company executive to cancel a party because members of both sexes were invited. Wives of Western businessmen and diplomats are fearful of leaving their villas in the evening unless accompanied by their husbands. To do otherwise in the atmosphere of intimidation created by the mutawain...
Abedi began playing his Lance card immediately, introducing Lance to his close business associate Ghaith Pharaon in Washington in late 1977. Pharaon, then 36, was a Harvard-educated Saudi who had parlayed royal-family connections into a Jidda construction fortune. He and a group of Arab investors from the gulf had earlier that year acted as fronts for Abedi's purchase of Pakistan's largest oil company. Now Abedi told Lance that Pharaon was, fortuitously it seemed, looking for an American bank to buy. Lance had resigned in September as Carter's budget director under charges of impropriety...