Word: oman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operation in current circumstances. Begin interrupted. "Don't use those words, Sam!" he pleaded. But after he had consulted the Cabinet, Begin said he and his colleagues had decided to accept my request for restraint. At this delicate juncture, Caspar Weinberger, on a tour of Saudi Arabia, Oman and Jordan, was reported to have stated that the U.S. needed more than one I friend in the Middle East and that the Administration might provide F-16 fighters and mobile Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Jordan. The Israelis were outraged. Begin wrote to the President: "I do not understand...
...civil libertarians and many other Britons expressed opposition to the policy as fundamentally unfair. Thatcher has also been subjected to hostile grilling in the Commons about the business dealings of her son Mark, 30. He is consultant to a construction firm that was awarded a $420 million contract in Oman shortly after Thatcher visited the sultanate. She has angrily denied any impropriety...
...Arabia supplied 25 percent of South Africa's oil. Since 1973, however, South Africa's oil suppliers have been classified. Despite this, the Shipping Research Bureau in Amsterdam, an anti-apartheid research foundation, found out that during 1979 and early 1980 South Africa received oil shipments from Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Iraq, Qutar and the United Arab Emirates...
...Pravda for the Iraqis, accusing the Iranians of resisting a negotiated settlement. "Tehran's intention to continue the war until 'victory is won' is obviously accompanied by chauvinistic sentiments," said Pravda. In an odd partnership with strongly conservative gulf states such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman, the Soviets have begun to pressure their close ally Syria to reduce its support of Iran...
...members of the Gulf Co-operation Council: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman...