Word: saudi
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...million tons a year) in the next five years to finance his national-development program. The Shah is not at all impressed by consortium claims that the world oil mar ket is already glutted. Last month, when several of the consortium's member companies started drilling for offshore Saudi Arabian oil in the Persian Gulf, the Shah was so incensed that he dis patched patrol boats to stop the drilling and arrest the oilmen...
...same time there is unemployment. Mayor Kan'an emphasizes this. He admits that there is always a job shortage in Nablus. But previously a man would travel to Amman, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia to find employment, often sending money to his family which remained on the West Bank. Now the frontiers are closed. Naturally the Arabs hold the Jews responsible for this economic hardship...
Portugal, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somali Republic, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, South Viet Nam, Yugoslavia, Zambia...
...were joined by seven other nations-Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Somalia. And there was no telling how many more might quit. India was threatening to pull out; so was the Soviet Union. The U.S. was committed to competing-but some Negro athletes were certain to boycott on their own. With all that pressure, at week's end, crustaceous I.O.C. Chairman Avery Brundage reluctantly agreed to put the question of a second vote on South Africa up to his executive committee...
Cooperation has become necessary for the Trucial States since Britain decided to pull back its 6,000 troops and its two Hawker Hunter jet squadrons from the Persian Gulf by 1971. Arab nationalists in South Yemen have vowed to oust the sheiks, and the Egyptians, Saudi Arabians, Iraqis and Iranians are also out to extend their influence in the Gulf. Result: the Trucial sheiks are scurrying around looking for ways to protect themselves. Last week's pact is just a start toward banding together in the face of danger. This week the sheiks gather in Dubai to discuss enlarging...