Word: riyadh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from nonbelligerent friends in the area who feel threatened by the conflict." The U.S. military contingent supporting four electronic surveillance planes (AWACS) loaned to Saudi Arabia had grown to more than 800 men last week. Additional troops and equipment were expected soon. A U.S. military assistance team flew to Riyadh for talks with Saudi officials. Said a State Department specialist: "We are stepping up our dialogue with the Saudis on what they need for their air defense...
...hopes for an early cessation of hostilities faded, so did fears that the conflagration could spread to neighboring Arab gulf states or even escalate into a confrontation between the superpowers. Responding to Saudi Arabia's fears of possible spillover attacks against Middle East oilfields, the U.S. lent Riyadh four AWAC (Airborne Warning and Control System) electronic-surveillance planes. Mindful that Iran might misinterpret the gesture as an act of pro-Iraqi collusion, Muskie wrote a letter to Banisadr re-emphasizing U.S. neutrality. Indeed, Iran promptly denounced the action as "provocative." As usual, it did not help the hostage problem...
...Brzezinski who unveiled in 1977 the concept of Iran and Saudi Arabia becoming "the regional influentials" on whom the U.S. could rely in the Persian Gulf. Now that Washington's relations with Tehran are severed and those with Riyadh are strained, Brzezinski is fascinated by the potential of radical, traditionally pro-Soviet Iraq as "the new regional influential...
...meantime, Anwar Sadat made an abortive effort to mend fences with his old allies and bankrollers, the Saudi Arabians, who had broken with him over his negotiations with Israel. Sadat announced that he was ready to go to Riyadh to talk with the Saudi leaders, but the Saudis quickly rebuffed him and brought an abrupt end to his proffered friendship. In a stinging speech the next night, Sadat reverted to form and assailed the Saudis as well as Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Syrian President Hafez Assad. Shouted Sadat to a meeting of provincial officials...
...women come to such shops for assignations. In one lurid segment, royal ladies are shown cruising a desert lovers' lane in chauffeur-driven limousines in search of casual amours. In fact, people familiar with Saudi Arabia assert that there are no such pick-up strips outside Jeddah or Riyadh, and that the whole picture of royal carnality in the film is a gross distortion. Reports TIME'S Beirut bureau chief William Stewart: "In Saudi Arabia, of all places, such a scene is unimaginable. By and large, the Saudi rulers are staunch Wahhabis, a sect with in Islam roughly...