Word: saudi
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...defendant: former billionaire Adnan Khashoggi. The now bankrupt Saudi Arabian arms dealer stands accused of conspiring with the Marcoses to conceal their illicit spending by backdating documents to make it appear that he, not the Marcoses, had bought four Manhattan skyscrapers valued at about $400 million. Actress Bo Derek played a cameo role, visiting her friend Khashoggi in the courtroom...
...Seth Carus of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy last week proposed that the U.S. extend some form of defense umbrella to cover Kuwait, whose territory Iraq claims, and Saudi Arabia, whose royal family is uneasy about Saddam's undisguised ambitions to dominate the region. Carus imagines the U.S. offering protection to these and other friendly countries within range of the Tammuz-1. The model might be the U.S. guarantee of South Korea's security against North Korea, which is also believed to be developing the Bomb...
...since early March. While demand for oil usually softens during springtime, new calculations of the world's oil production have stunned commodity traders. Total output by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries exceeds 24.5 million bbl. per day, or 2 million beyond its agreed ceiling. At the same time, Saudi Arabia said it had discovered a huge new oil field...
Muslim cultural pressure is by no means the only cause of Christian decline, reasons for which vary country by country. Lebanon is convulsed by feudal warfare, pitting Christians against not only Muslims but, increasingly, rival Christians. Saudi Arabia has long forbidden any open Christian activity. By contrast, Islam is not the state religion in autocratic Syria and its 10% Christian minority will apparently be secure as long as Hafez Assad holds power...
...East bloc, some agents who do not make the grade are hunting for espionage jobs in the West. Most are turned away. "If the KGB did not want them, why should we?" says a senior British diplomat. Many agents end up working in Western countries for Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Libya. "It makes sense," says Malcolm Mackintosh, senior fellow at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. "They are less conspicuous in the West than Arabs are." The cold war may be over, but for spies the basic method remains the same: the art of survival is founded...