Word: saudi
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...rebuke came from the very top. During his Oval Office speech last week about his decision to send U.S. troops to Saudi Arabia, the President exhorted Big Oil to resist the temptation to profit from a bad situation. Iraqi tanks had hardly arrived in Kuwait a week earlier when the majors started jacking up prices at gas pumps across the U.S. In the first four days, the price of self- serve, unleaded gas rose 7.1 cents per gal., according to an American Automobile Association (AAA) check of 1,400 stations. By last Friday prices were up an average...
Rallying the Arab world to the American cause has been trickiest. Saudi Arabia feared that the U.S. might tire of its mission and pull out, leaving the oil-rich kingdom at Saddam's mercy. But the resolve Bush projected was perceived as firm, in part because he waived the Metzenbaum amendment -- a restriction on the sale of U.S. jets to the Saudis. Coupled with the satellite intelligence showing that Saddam's forces were positioned to strike the Saudis, that action turned King Fahd into a believer, and U.S. troops were promptly invited to defend Saudi Arabia...
...terms of directional clarity," says a Bush adviser, "this has all been an easy call. Even a dolt understands the principle. We need the oil. It's nice to talk about standing up for freedom, but Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are not exactly democracies, and if their principal export were oranges, a mid-level State Department official would have issued a statement and we would have closed Washington down for August. There is nothing to waver about here." What Saddam offers the President, says another White House aide, is "a case where he knows what's right, he knows what...
Country and western stations are also getting into the act. Disc jockey Ken Cooper at KZLA in Burbank, Calif., came up with several parodies, such as a twist on Hank Williams Jr.'s "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" that goes "All My Saudi Friends are Coming Over Tonight...
Prince Turki, who is fourth in line to the Saudi throne, was honored at a private dinner at Harvard Medical School on July 31. He was invited to meet with President Derek C. Bok, but postponed the appointment indefinitely at the outbreak of the Middle East crisis...