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Fulminations from radical Arabs were to be expected. Far more troublesome and discouraging is a sour mood in Saudi Arabia itself. Officially, the desert monarchy showered Reagan with praise for his staunch battle on behalf of the AWACS. But TIME editors on a news tour of the Persian Gulf region with U.S. businessmen heard a different line from Saudi officials, beginning with Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz, No. 3 in the Saudi hierarchy. "I personally am hoping for the failure of the vote today," he said only hours before the Senate roll call. "That would be an eye-opener...
...Saudis began pressing for precisely the fuel tanks and bomb racks (Sidewinder missiles were added later) that Brown had said they would not get. When war broke out between Iran and Iraq, both Americans and Saudis had visions of bombing raids on the vital oil fields near the Persian Gulf; the U.S. dispatched four AWACS planes, manned by American crews, to give early warning of any such attack (they will stay until the first Saudi AWACS arrive...
...Soviet-U.S. disagreements over the Middle East and Afghanistan. You say the Middle East [including the Persian Gulf] is an area of vital interest to the U.S. Yet on the other hand you think the Soviet Union should tolerate attacks by interventionists and provocateurs against friendly regimes on its borders. The Reagan Administration proclaims U.S. interests everywhere, yet when the other side does something, it is seen as contrary to U.S. interests. The security of the Soviet Union is as much affected by the stability of the Middle East as is the security of the U.S. The distance from...
...bizarre showcase for all this lethal hardware is the 13-month-old Persian Gulf conflict. Iraq has been using Soviet MiG jets, French Mirage jets, Brazilian Urutu armored personnel carriers, and Soviet T-72 tanks to fight Iran's American F-4 jets, British Chieftain tanks and Italian-built Chinook helicopters. "The Iran-Iraq arms buildup is a classic case of internal pressures and external fears combining to produce a disaster," says a diplomat who has served in both countries...
...invasion of Chad, a former French colony. "Right now we're in a period of reflection," says a top govern ment minister. But Mitterrand by no means wants France out of the business: on a visit to Saudi Arabia last month he assured King Khalid that sales to the Persian Gulf region would continue. They discussed potential Saudi investment