Word: saudi
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...early demise." But the gulf war promised no new era of collective responsibility. The gulf war was no more collective than the Korean War, also fought under the U.N. flag. It was not the U.N. that reversed Saddam's conquest of Kuwait. It was the U.S. Army, based in Saudi Arabia, helped by Britain and France. Everything else was window dressing...
...dinars, as well as bogus American $100 bills. In a letter last month to United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Baghdad accused the U.S. of making a bid to undermine Iraq's economy by directing efforts to smuggle in counterfeit money from several neighboring countries, including Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. At home, Iraqis also joke about being able to pick out "Israeli" and "Kurdish" dinars, according to where the notes are presumed to have been printed. For its part, the cia denies having anything to do with the funny money...
Adams, an anthropologist and educator, servedas provost of the University of Chicago. Hisscholarship focuses on early state formation inthe ancient Near East and the New World. Born in1926, Adams' work includes field studies on thehistory of irrigation and urban settlement inIraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran and reconnaissance andexcavation missions of ancient Mayan settlementsin Mexico in the late 1950s...
...prominent figure in the Bank of Commerce and Credit International scandal is discovered to be a major contributor to the Harvard Business School and to have recently pledged to give upwards of $1 million. Gaith R. Pharao, a Saudi financier accused of fronting for BCCI's American bank acquisition, is later fined $37 million by the Federal Reserve...
...occupying Soviet troops and government forces thanks to mountains of sophisticated weaponry supplied from American and other Western sources. Now that a cease- fire is in place, terrorist groups and outlaw regimes are on a shopping spree in Afghanistan. Governments around the world are worried, particularly those from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to the Central Asian republics that might become targets of more powerful weapons. Iran has deployed two delegations to Kabul, offering to pay generously for American-made Stinger missiles -- the shoulder-mounted rockets can shoot down helicopters and low-flying aircraft. With thousands of Stingers now lying unused...