Word: riyadh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...multimillion-dollar estate in Riyadh, Sheik Abdul Aziz Tawajiri, a commander of the Saudi Internal security force under Prince Abdullah, delivered an emotional warning. Its essence: Saudi Arabia's aspirations to pan-Arab leadership are incompatible with close Saudi-American friendship, so long as the U.S. remains Israel's chief supporter. Within Saudi Arabia, warned Tawajiri, "a generation gap is developing. Perceptions of the U.S. are changing, slowly perhaps, but for the worse." As most of his ten sons sat silently near by, the sheik, who is in his early 70s, asserted that they "have sizzling arguments with me. They...
...attempt was made to get a quid pro quo from the Saudis such as support for the Camp David peace process. Aides to Allen claim that they discussed asking Riyadh for such a commitment; they gave up the idea as futile. Nor did the Administration propose joint U.S.-Saudi control or manning of the planes, though that would have also allayed some Israeli and congressional objections...
Indeed, any overt American military embrace would run the risk of smothering other U.S. friends in the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia. Riyadh already fears that it might be perceived by radicals as a puppet of the U.S. ? a worry heightened by Reagan's ill-conceived declaration last month that Washington would not let Saudi Arabia become "an Iran." The President never made clear how he would back up his unsolicited promise to protect the Saudi monarchy from internal or external threats to its power...
...gently reminded Reagan that "we have enough budgetary problems, so I hope you don't make us spend more for arms." And, wonder of wonders, Reagan's advisers reported that the President did not bring up the much contested plan to sell AW ACS planes to Riyadh in his chat with Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia (see following story...
...security risk in selling AWACS to a potentially unstable Saudi regime. Reagan snapped: "I have to say that Saudi Arabia we will not permit to be an Iran." When asked the logical follow-up question on how the U.S. would intervene to prevent any domestic uprising against the Riyadh monarchy, Reagan recovered somewhat, putting the issue in a broader context of the Western world's stake in protecting access to Middle East oil. Said he about Saudi Arabia: "There's no way that we could stand by and see that taken over by anyone that would shut...