Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Failing such action, President Bush has overstepped his proper role. Congress has only given its support to a defensive role in Saudi Arabia (in a resolution about two months ago). Bush should not be allowed to assume that Congress and the nation will automatically lend their support to his action...
...Your country, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has supported the Palestinians in many ways over the years. Now their principal representative, the P.L.O., is supporting Saddam Hussein. Is there any sense in which you feel this represents a betrayal or a lack of gratitude...
...lower the price of oil and thus protect the American standard of living? A war--which will likely destroy Kuwaiti, Saudi and Iraqi oil fields--will only raise oil prices and push the economy to a major recession...
Maybe not, nor a Gorbachev-Yeltsin pact either. -- Thatcher could lose even by winning her Tory contest. -- Putting on the brakes in Saudi Arabia...
...share of hawks and doves. But as the possibility of war with Iraq looms ever larger, what powerful figures in official Washington do not have is a direct personal stake in the fate of the troops. No one in the President's Cabinet has a child serving in Saudi Arabia. Of the 535 members of Congress, just two -- Democratic Representatives Kika de la Garza of Texas and Jerry Costello of Illinois -- are known to have sons involved in Operation Desert Shield. By comparison, in 1970 there were 74 congressional children serving in Vietnam or elsewhere. But the White House...