Word: riyadh
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Military cooperation between Washington and Riyadh is, in fact, severely lacking. The Saudis do not wish to become overly identified with the U.S. plan to build a Rapid Deployment Force to oppose Soviet expansion in the Persian Gulf, and they are especially reluctant to allow the U.S. to build bases on Saudi territory. Weinberger offered last week to help the Saudis and the smaller gulf states build a regional arms industry, but the proposal seems to have gone unheard. Weinberger did not even announce that the letters of agreement for the $8.5 billion Saudi purchase of U.S. AWACS radar warning...
DISPATCHED FROM Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the three page telex arrived in the officers of two dozen senators the morning of October 28, 1981. Signed the night before by 22 corporate executives on a tour of the Middle East and Eastern Europe sponsored by Time, Inc., the telegram strongly urged the wavering legislators to vote that afternoon for the sale of AWACS aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Senate rejection of the electronic reconnaissance planers, it argued, would "severely damage U.S. credibility in [the] Arab world...
...excuse Horner's action because it avoided besmirching the name of fair Radclife is to miss the ethical boat entirely. Her lobbying is questionable precisely because it was an individual effort, compelled by no institutional imperatives. As The New Republic reported last week, the Riyadh telex was but one element in a massive Saudi lobbying effort for the AWACS sale--an effort targeted and American corporations anxious to secure lucrative contracts with the Saudis. The corporate leaders accompanying Horner clearly felt a need to advance their corporate interests; that does not make their lobbying excusable, but it does make...
...given that no other pressures worked upon Horner, she had a special responsibility to make a cogent case for the sale. That responsibility, to understand the complexities and likely impact of the sale, seems particularly great given the less-than-wholesome aura of its origin a corporate conclave in Riyadh apparently teeming with Saudi influence-peddlers...
...denied allegation in today's issue of the New Republic that intense Saudi lobbying efforts influenced many American corporations--including some whose representatives signed the tells--to press for the sale. The telex--as at from Riyadh. Saudi Arabia--was not a "Saudi effort" and the group actually found that some Saudi leaders opposed the sale. Horner said...