Word: saud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...representing the country's sparring groups would meet this week to pave the way for the promised discussions on a fairer division of national power. The compromise came about after a meeting in New York City between Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal...
...Yellow Rose (NBC, Saturdays, 10 p.m.). That old patriarch Wade Champion, he sired more boys than Ibn Saud put together: Roy (David Soul), who runs the Yellow Rose ranch; Quisto (Edward Albert), who wants to put oil derricks on the grazing land; and now Chance (Sam Elliott), fresh from a seven-year stretch for murder one. The women, too, can be hard as a Texas dirt road and twice as dangerous: Grace McKenzie (a sizzling Susan Anspach), the cook, serves up more than biscuits, and Colleen Champion (a restored Cybill Shepherd) looks ready to make trouble with every male...
...West, the country can be exasperatingly difficult for a foreigner to read. Today the kingdom seems to deserve closer scrutiny than usual: the past year's drop in oil production has diminished Saudi Arabia's income, while rumors of dissension within the ruling House of Saud have proliferated...
...country, of course, still shines with promise. As family businesses go, Saudi Arabia is immensely successful. Within a single generation, the ruling House of Saud has transformed its desert kingdom from a nomadic backwater into an influential power with all the trappings of a modern nation. Most of Saudi Arabia's wealth, in fact, has been accumulated only in the past decade: with nearly a quarter of the world's proven oil reserves, the kingdom profited handsomely when petroleum prices quadrupled in the wake of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. In 1981, for example, the country collected...
...Saud, in turn, warned members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Arab nations "would hold the U.S. responsible" for a bloody Israeli assault on West Beirut, and hinted at retaliation. Committee Chairman Charles Percy of Illinois wondered whether this might take the form of a cutback in the oil production vital to Western economies and a massive withdrawal of Arab money from American banks. So the moment of opportunity for American policymakers in the Middle East is also a moment of peril...