Word: saudi
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John Philby, a noted Arabic scholar who adopted the Moslem religion and became chief adviser to Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, Kim was born to rebellion. An "old boy" of an exclusive British public school, he was recruited by the Communists in 1934 while he was studying German in Vienna. His assignment: to penetrate British intelligence, no matter how long it took. The assignment paid off. After a stint covering the Spanish Civil War from the Franco side for the London Times, Philby made use of his old-boy ties and conservative credentials to get a job with...
...aftermath of their Khartoum summit meeting, some Arab nations finally began to patch up their quarrels with one another. They also began to deal more rationally with the West. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya dropped their oil embargo against the U.S. and Britain and reaffirmed their promise to subsidize Egypt and Jordan to the tune of $392 million a year as long as "traces of Israeli aggression" persist. Egypt and Sudan restored landing rights to Britain's BOAC, and Egypt was on the verge of allowing T.W.A. back into Cairo. Even those two archenemies among the Arabs-Egypt...
Died. Mohamed ben Laden, 53, Saudi Arabian construction king who could neither read nor write but whose computer-like memory for figures lifted him from laborer to Aramco construction boss in his mid-thirties, whereupon he quit to form his own company and with the late King Ibn Saud's patronage built $500 million worth of airfields, dams and highways throughout his nation; of injuries in the crash of his de Havilland DH-125 executive jet; near Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia...
...First Saudi Arabia, then Kuwait, Libya and Iraq-the four major Arab oil-producing states-agreed to resume shipments in keeping with the deal struck two weeks ago by Arab heads of state at their summit session in Khartoum. Another three months of embargo, explained Egyptian Minister of Economy Hassan Abbas Zaki, would cost the West $770 million worth of oil but would deprive the Arab producers of $870 million of income. Only Algeria, the fifth-ranking producer, kept its embargo. And even that involved more symbolism than substance, since the overwhelming percentage of Algerian output goes...
Lebanon last week agreed to let oil companies resume shipments to the three Western nations from its Mediterranean ports. That oil comes via two separate pipelines from Iraq to Tripoli and from Saudi Arabia to Sidon. Both lines run through Syria, whose extremist regime opposed ending the embargo and could easily close either line by twisting a few valves. The Trans-Arabian pipeline, jointly owned by Texaco, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil (N.J.) and Mobil Oil, has been shut since the fighting erupted. Because some 20 miles of it runs through former Syrian territory, now occupied by Israel...