Word: riyadh
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...ties in Western Europe. Perhaps most important, they have been trying to come to grips with the potential for internal troubles by controlling the impact of breakneck development and foreign influence on their ultraconservative Muslim culture. As a result, Saudi leadership views the world from the palaces of Riyadh with considerably more confidence than it has in some time-and wants the world to know it. Concludes a long-experienced U.S. observer in Jidda: "The Saudis are determined to get the message across that they are not in immediate jeopardy." Concerned officials and experts in Washington and other capitals tend...
Diplomacy. The Saudi defense buildup is being matched by a major diplomatic effort that readily converts Riyadh's financial clout into political muscle. The Saudi diplomatic watchwords have traditionally been discretion and caution-so much so that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat occasionally upbraided the Saudi rulers as "afraid of their own shadows." Now, noting recent Saudi successes at carving out a mediating role for themselves in the region, one of Sadat's own advisers acknowledges that the Saudis are "no longer seen as weak reactionaries but have a newly acquired respectability...
...years Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani has been Saudi Arabian Oil Minister and Mr. OPEC. Just before leaving for this week's meeting of the oil cartel in Bali, Indonesia, Yamani sat down in his Riyadh office with TIME Correspondent Bruce van Voorst to discuss the energy outlook. Some excerpts from the interview...
...make our judgment known when we see the last Syrian soldiers withdrawing from their positions." Then, in a further effort to heal the breach between the two antagonistic countries, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia invited both Jordan's King Hussein and Syria's President Hafez Assad to Riyadh for a detailed discussion of their differences...
Eventually his contracting firm became the nucleus of the Olayan Saudi Holding Co., a Riyadh-based-conglomerate that boasts revenues of $300 million a year from such varied sources as sales of International Harvester construction equipment and the distribution of Campbell's soups and other foods. An Olayan-controlled insurance firm, the first in Saudi Arabia, earned $101 million in brokerage fees last year; another Olayan outfit owns or controls 35 companies engaged variously in farming chickens, desalinating water and building Riyadh's new $4 billion airport...