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...quest for redress has taken Mallard, a member of the Harvard Dental School Advisory Board, from local television stations to the State Department to the president of the United States...
More than a decade later, however, Mallard has little to show for his efforts but stacks of letters on federal stationery rejecting his appeals...
...Mallard now charges that high-ranking officials, including then-Vice President Bush, slighted the workers' complaints in order to maintain good relations with Saudi Arabian government and business interests...
Bush joined those Mallard describes as blocking attempts at redress in 1985, when he wrote a letter refusing to pursue the case of Mallard's former employees, John Keene and Jim Maes [see related story, page...
...Mallard rejects this idea as "unrealistic," saying that he has been assured by Saudi and Americans alike that Americans have essentially no le gal rights in Saudi Arabia. The StateDepartment's failure to acknowledge this, Mallardsays, is effectively an abandonment of Americancitizens who have been mistreated abroad...