Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is likely to reorganize its personnel this fall, and some police sources said the move comes in part because of a major protection operation for a Saudi Arabian prince...
...workers to labor there would also disrupt production. Says a U.S. analyst: "With a shortfall of only 1 million bbl. of oil a day, now the price has gone to $35 ((from $18 before the invasion of Kuwait)). Imagine the impact of the loss of a big portion of Saudi Arabia's 7 million bbl. a day." Conceivably, the price could reach as high as $100, far more than enough to cause both a crippling recession, with widespread joblessness, and ruinous inflation throughout the industrial world. The U.S. would certainly retaliate with devastating bombing of Iraq. From Saddam's viewpoint...
...some indications that these scenarios are more than American paranoia. Bassam Abu Sharif, an adviser to Yasser Arafat, the head of the pro- Iraq Palestine Liberation Organization, visited Baghdad last week. Abu Sharif reports that if war comes, Saddam is threatening to strike Israel and oil-loading installations throughout Saudi Arabia and the gulf states...
...process, Saddam Hussein is remaking Kuwait's demography to suit himself. Thousands of fleeing Kuwaitis have been allowed across the border into Saudi Arabia and replaced by an influx of Iraqi civilians. Government records are being carted off or burned; soon it will be hard to prove who is or is not a Kuwaiti...
...Khafji crossing point on the Saudi-Kuwait border last week, air- conditioned Mercedes-Benz and other late-model sedans lined up by the hundreds. Their passengers told stories of beatings, looting and nights full of gunfire. While there is still food in the shops, they said, rationing had begun, and Iraqis had first claim on all supplies. Other refugees told of shootings, explosions and summary executions of suspected resistance fighters...