Word: saudi
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About 100,000 U.S. soldiers are dug into the Saudi Arabian desert south of the Kuwaiti border along with several thousand Arab troops. Scores of U.S. and other warships have assembled in the Persian Gulf region, where they are enforcing the U.N.-sanctioned embargo on trade with Iraq...
...French combat helicopters and 100 soldiers began heading for Saudi Arabia yesterday. France has deployed more than 7000 troops in the gulf region, most of them aboard warships...
Meanwhile, former presidential candidate and frequent Harvard visitor the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson was in Cambridge last month, making a token effort at relieving tensions in the Persian Gulf crisis. He met with Prince Turki Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, a member of the Saudi royal family, at the Prince's posh suite at the Charles Hotel. Details of the meeting were sketchy but it does not appear that the conference has helped solve the international crisis...
...Egypt, Syria and Morocco have joined the gulf countries in sending troops to Saudi Arabia. If King Fahd asks us for more troops, I am prepared to send them immediately...
Everybody says OPEC will never fully recover from the Saddam Shock. But that is not good enough. Whatever we are fighting for, it is surely not so that the oil ministers of Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait can once again drink tea together around a conference table. There should be a new understanding that all efforts to allocate production and set prices for oil are an affront to both the values and the interests of the U.S. During the first oil crisis in 1973, people who urged an occupation of the oil fields to end the oil gouge were...