Word: riyadh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make arrests, imposing a curfew on its 3,000 residents. Shouting vulgar insults, the Israelis started searching for young Palestinians suspected of stoning the cars of Jewish settlers traveling on nearby roads. Confronted by a stone-throwing mob, the policemen opened fire, killing a 28-year-old laborer named Riyadh Abu Gayadeh...
...market analyst for the Manhattan commodities firm Elders Futures, Inc. Another variable is Saudi Arabia's strategy, says G. Henry Schuler, an energy specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Schuler points out that in 1987, when oil sold for $20 per bbl., Riyadh increased its production to drive down the price and deprive Iran of its war chest. "But once the war is over, then the Saudis don't have any reason to keep prices down," he says. Schuler's prediction: oil could jump to $22 to $24 per bbl. in a year...
...influence in the Arab world and highlights the Reagan Administration's losing fight to overcome the resistance of the powerful U.S. Jewish lobby to weapons sales to Arab countries. The last major U.S. deal with the Saudis was in 1981, when the Administration barely surmounted congressional opposition and sold Riyadh five AWACS radar- surveillance planes...
Under the British-Saudi agreement, Riyadh will obtain 48 Tornado fighter- bombers to add to the 72 it has already contracted for, as well as up to 60 Hawk jet trainers, 80 helicopters and six minesweepers. Britain will also build two military airfields and provide training for Saudi Arabia's army and air force...
...doubly miffed -- at the Saudis for having acted secretively to acquire the weapons and at the Israelis for their threatening reaction. Last week the State Department confirmed that U.S. Ambassador Hume Horan is being recalled from Riyadh after a tour of only six months. It was unclear whether the missile flap was involved, but the issue could hardly have been a highlight of his brief tenure. Horan's possible successor: Walter Cutler, who served in the post from 1984 until last summer...