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In the letter, Bush said the State Department did not have a responsibility to assist Keene and Maes, referring to the matter as "a private contractual arrangement" which "fall[s] under the jurisdiction of the legal system of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia."
State Department accounts of the case havediffered throughout from Keene and Maes' version,Mallard said. Department officials contacted inearly 1980 said that they had never said SaudiArabia was a safe place to work, despite Keene'ssigned affidavit to the contrary.
In addition, Keene and Maes submittedaffidavits stating that when they tried to go tothe American consulate in Dharan, they wererefused entry by a marine "under orders" fromhigher officials. But embassy officials deniedthat this incident occurred, Mallard says.
Ferguson-Augustus and other departmentrepresentatives declined to comment further oneither the Keene and Maes case or on Mallard'scharges of preferential treatment for Saudioffenders.
But Mallard says that experiences of the past12 years have led him largely to give up theexpectation that the State Department will take upKeene and Maes' case of its own accord. Theexecutive-turned-human rights activist says hishopes now rest with the efforts underway inCongress and in the Supreme Court...