Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mast. Martin Vineyard, Union High School Class of 1988, United States Marine Corps, was listed killed in action. When the mother of my high-school buddy Sonny told me the story, she suddenly burst into tears in front of me; her son was getting ready to ship out to Saudi Arabia...
With the continuing American troop buildup in Saudi Arabia and the daily increases in tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank, it may be only a matter of time before a minor incident provokes yet another Mid-East...
...losses in trade and commerce, the gulf crisis has sparked a general reluctance to invest in a region that has been an important trading partner for industrialized economies, contributing $3.3 billion to Germany's $81 billion trade surplus for 1989. For the moment, most capital projects have been delayed. Saudi Arabia, for instance, planned to construct 400 new industrial plants at a total cost of $40 billion in the next five years. Until the crisis is resolved, it is safe to assume that those projects will remain where they are today: in limbo...
...smart money is on this month. Top officials in the U.S. and French governments, among others, are already saying that if anything happens it is likely to happen then. Patience with the U.N. trade embargo against Iraq may be wearing thin, and the armed alliance in Saudi Arabia could be showing rifts. Action may be necessary to stave off dissolution...
...restoration of the security and stability of the Persian Gulf. The confusion lies in how and when these objectives might be reached and at what cost. No wonder many Americans echo the question posed to Secretary of State James Baker last week by a lonely G.I. in the Saudi desert: "Mr. Secretary, why are we here...