Word: ras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condition of anonymity, said the Sea Trader encountered a flotilla of six armed speedboats as it sailed into the gulf through the strait about 11:30 p.m. EDT Saturday. The tanker, owned by a Saudi firm but flying the Liberian flag, was bound for the Saudi oil port of Ras Tanura...
...white United Nations station wagon headed south on the coastal highway from the Lebanese town of Tyre. Suddenly, near the village of Ras el-Ein, a ; brown Volvo blocked the road. Gunmen leaped from the car and dragged out the station wagon's lone passenger: U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel William Higgins, 43, the leader of a 76-man observer group attached to the U.N. Interim Force. The attackers forced him into the Volvo and sped off. That abduction last week brought to nine the number of American hostages in Lebanon...
They said the abduction occurred between Ras el-Ein and Deir Qanoun, villages controlled by Justice Minister Nabih Berri's Shiite Amal militia. U.N. sources said Amal was helping UNIFIL search for Higgins...
...Alexandria summit was the twelfth meeting between the leaders of Israel and Egypt since 1977, but only the first since 1981. The talks took place in the beige, horseshoe-shaped Ras el Tin Palace, once the summer residence of King Farouk, Egypt's last monarch, and now used by the government for official purposes...
...know what he is doing," declared one prince. "We should cut and run from OPEC. Why should we suffer to protect them?" Finally in September, the Saudis quietly decided to throw their production into high gear and reclaim the country's lost market share. The giant petroport at Ras Tanura and the offshore loading terminal at Ju'aymah sprang to life, their 56-in. pipes spewing more than 4 million...