Word: qatar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...states that philanthropically pumped $1.7 billion into Egypt last year, advised Cairo that it was scrapping all pending projects. Finally, the Arab Organization for Industrialization, which was set up in 1975 to produce everything from helmets to helicopters with Egyptian manpower and $1.4 billion in financing from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, abruptly halted its operations. As a result, 16,000 Egyptians stand to lose their jobs...
...largesse was just a trifle embarrassing since the Queen got a little bit better than she gave. Her official gifts to her hosts in Kuwait, Bah rain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman were sterling silver salvers engraved with a picture of the royal yacht Britannia. The Guardian estimated that the salvers probably cost between $4,000 and $6,000 apiece, adding somewhat cattily that Britain's "balance of payments on the transaction looks extremely healthy." Still, as the paper observed, "it's the thought that counts...
Exploiting the shortage, Abu Dhabi and Qatar last week added a 7% surcharge to the 1.8 million bbl. per day that they produce. The increase is on top of the 5% OPEC rise that took effect last month and lifted the basic price to $13.34 per bbl. The cartel had scheduled a raise in steps to $14.55 by October. But at the present rate of increase, oil from Abu Dhabi and Qatar then would be selling at $16.32 per bbl. Other oil producers, notably such anti-Western militants as Libya and Iraq, are expected to make similar increases. Says...
During the respite, Sadat worked to improve his relations with the moderate Arab regimes. He wrote letters to the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, assuring them once again that his initiative was aimed not at a separate Egyptian-Israeli peace but at a comprehensive peace in the Middle East. He also reaffirmed his determination to link any pact to progress on an overall settlement involving the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...policy in the Middle East, openly criticized the Camp David agreements. Other protests arose like a sandstorm, not only from such radical states as Libya, South Yemen and Algeria, and, of course, the Palestine Liberation Organization, but also from Syria and such moderate and normally friendly states as Bahrain, Qatar, North Yemen, Kuwait and Lebanon...