Word: riyadh
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...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...
...already aroused a howl of Saudi protest three weeks ago when it was first shown over Britain's independent television network. But when the government-controlled British Broadcasting Corporation showed another documentary on Saudi Arabia that, like the Princess film, was highly uncomplimentary to Saudi royal life, Riyadh's wrath boiled over...
...dispute between Iran and Iraq is profoundly embarrassing to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which enjoys the support of both countries. In fact, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat visited Baghdad last November in an effort to convince Iraq not to try to seize the disputed islands; he also visited Riyadh and asked the Saudis not to support such a move. Arafat has even offered to mediate the present dispute, but so far to no avail. Last week neither side appeared to be in any hurry to cool off. Retorted Saddam Hussein in response to Iran's threats to destroy his regime...
When word leaked out a while back that Princeton University was discussing a $5 million research grant from the University of Riyadh, the Daily Princetonian called Saudi Arabia's consulate in New York and raised a sensitive question. Would Princeton faculty members sent to the Middle East face discrimination problems? The reply, according to the student paper: "We don't issue visas to Jews...