Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nasty little war in Yemen, one year old this month, is dragging on in grand disregard for the peace-seeking efforts of the U.N. Neither Egypt nor Saudi Arabia has honored its pledge, which both made earlier this year under U.S. mediation pressure, to disengage simultaneously from Yemen. Although Nasser has sent home six shiploads of troops, he has rotated in fresh detach ments, and at least 20,000 Egyptian soldiers are still in Yemen propping up the republican regime of President Ab dullah Sallal. All the while, money and munitions from the monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Jordan still...
...when his horse, being led down a dusty street, kicked a Yemeni government official, resulting in the arrest of both groom and horse. U.N. planes are regularly fired on (none has been downed so far), and last month a Russian-made Egyptian Ilyushin jet bomber attacking Najran inside Saudi Arabia nearly scored a direct hit on a U.N. platoon. Getting into the act, the Russians have sent in at least 900 workmen and technicians, who are constructing a new jet airport north of San'a. Recently, the Russians threw an inquiring U.N. inspector off the premises when he approached...
...Palestine peace-keeping force, suddenly resigned in a cable to Thant, charging lack of sufficient logistic support, aircraft and even rations. Thant branded Von Horn's charges "irresponsible and reckless," announced last week that the mission would continue, thanks to "oral assurances" by Egypt and Saudi Arabia that they would continue splitting the bill ($200,000 per month) for another two months...
Even to hardened Bedouin shepherds, the waterless wastes of Saudi Arabia's Rub' al Khali (literally, "empty quarter") seemed so desolate that "not even Allah had been there." But under these simmering sands American geologists discovered a sea of oil, and the company that tapped it-the Arabian American Oil Co.-has become one of the world's two largest single oil producers. (The other: Kuwait Oil Co., jointly owned by Gulf and British Petroleum...
...chance to make money," says Lowell Dillingham. The Dillingham Corp., which Lowell formed in 1961 by putting together 21 of the family-run subsidiaries, is working on an airport in Malaya ($6,700,000), a harbors project in Indonesia ($5,000,000), an airport in Saudi Arabia ($3,400,000), and wharfing and harbor facilities in Singapore ($4,800,000). It is involved in a $28 million modernization of Australia's Mount Isa railroad and mines and a $3,500,000 reclamation project in the Philippines. By no means ready to abandon Hawaii, Dillingham is building a $15 million...