Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dressed in a blue-and-white T-shirt with the word "Surfington" on it, Faoud said he favored an immediate Iraqi attack on Saudi Arabia...
...Iraq attacks Saudi Arabia, this is good. Saudi Arabia is run by America anyway," he told...
Baker filled his cup in the Middle East: he got a Saudi commitment to pay almost all "in-country costs" (transportation, water, fuel) of maintaining the U.S. forces defending the kingdom, and a pledge from the Kuwaiti government in exile to kick in an additional $5 billion, at least half of which would go to Desert Shield. Britain, though financially strapped, promised a further contribution in the form of additional troops rather than cash. Japanese officials told Brady they would put up more than the $1 billion they had pledged but did not specify an amount. West Germany, which...
...SAUDI ARABIA AND THE GULF STATES. No longer can the Saudis exist in semifeudal isolation; they must open themselves externally and internally. Inviting U.S. military forces to defend them was only the first step. King Fahd took another last week by urging Saudi women as well as young men to assist in the national defense effort. This week authorities will begin registering women volunteers for work in hospitals and medical services. That may gradually open the way for greater female participation in the kingdom's public life. Saudi women remain severely restricted; they are forbidden by law to drive...
Eventually, Saudi Arabia and the equally feudal emirates, sheikdoms and sultanates of the gulf (Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates -- and Kuwait, if Saddam Hussein lets go) will also have to share more of their oil riches with the poorer Arab states, through investment and development aid. The bitter resentment of their wealth and isolation, fanned but not originated by Saddam Hussein, has come as a salutary shock to their rulers. Some may be realizing too that it is unhealthy for as much as 60% of their populations to be composed of foreign workers (Palestinians, Pakistanis, Egyptians, Filipinos...