Word: saudia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the U.S. Government has privately agreed to supply unstated quantities of defensive weapons to Somalia. The bill will be paid by Saudia Arabia, which for years has been trying to woo predominantly Muslim Somalia out of the Soviet orbit. TIME has learned that in exchange for a firm Western pledge of armaments, the Somalis are prepared to order the Russians to vacate their huge missile base at Berbera and withdraw their 2,500 military technicians...
...conference closed, delegates promised to keep in touch. But the outlook for a full-dress global meeting-or any sort of oil amity-is dim. At week's end while visiting Washington, Saudia Arabia's petroleum minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, warned Americans that in the event of a new war in the Middle East, or even some vaguely defined "situation like war," the Arabs would not hesitate to impose another oil embargo on the U.S. and to extend it to Japan and Western Europe if they dared to share their supplies with...
...crisis that has stalked the world since the Middle East's October war presents some internal problems for Saudia Arabia. No one appreciates those problems more than somber King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud. Even as OPEC oil, of which Faisal's reserves constitute the largest share, rocks Western economies, the West's relentless thirst for petroleum is in turn forcing far-reaching modernization on Faisal's desert kingdom. Faisal has faced no greater quandary since he displaced his inept half brother Saud from the throne in 1964. At that time, hard...
...Gulf states [Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, etc.] want to treat oil purely as a commercial item, but the U.S. must help reduce pressure on them to use the oil weapon," Luce said...