Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With every passing week, someone with credentials in international law enforcement joins the chorus calling for a raid to finish off the thief of Baghdad. Last month Richard Perle, a former Pentagon official, wrote in the New York Times that a shield to defend Saudi Arabia is not enough. What's needed, he said, is a "desert sword" -- an offensive operation to decapitate Iraq's leadership and destroy its military capacity. Last week, in a syndicated column, Henry Kissinger said he would be "very uneasy" if the U.S. waited beyond the end of the year to take "military measures." Otherwise...
Arafat is also caught in a political squeeze. The gulf leaders refuse his calls, and he is unwelcome in their countries. In addition, the emerging Saudi-Egyptian-Syrian axis cuts him out of the locus of power. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak feels personally betrayed by Arafat, and Syria's Hafez Assad has long disdained...
...hand, we commend the valiance of the enlisted personel in Saudi Arabia. On the other, we tell members of our own community who are inspired, or simply willing enough to pledge the same sense of loyalty to the U.S., to hustle over to MIT, surreptitiously and without complaint...
...Iraqi Arabs holds that Saddam Hussein is rectifying grave economic ineqalities that exist between the wealthy Gulf Arabs and their less fortunate brothers in other parts of the Arab world. This is to question the commitment of Gulf Arabs in aiding poorer Arabs. In reality, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have long been active benefactors--within leagal and internationally supported frameworks--of inter-Arab relief organizations...
Since 1961, Kuwait has provided capital to developing Arab countries through the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. Kuwait was a principal contributor to the Fund, established to help Egypt and Jordan recover from the 1967 and 1973 wars, and along with Saudi Arabia, has contributed to the more moderate Palestinian faction. Kuwait became one of the world's major aid donors in 1977, when its contributions reached eight percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). This percentage was the largest in the world from 1981-85. In addition, Kuwait has been active in directing economic, medical and humanitarian...