Word: shwadran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philby for an analysis of the present regime in Saudi Arabia. I have great respect for Philby as a historian; having failed in his mission in Saudi Arabia and having been booted out of the country, he is hardly an objective commentator on the present regime. Nor can Benjamin Shwadran, the editor of the pro-Israeli, anti-Arabic journal, Middle Eastern Affairs, be properly quoted without balancing his charges with the defense of an anti-Israeli, pro-Arabic writer...
...Benjamin Shwadran, editor of the scholarly magazine Middle Eastern Affairs, offers the best documented analysis to date of how the government's 50-50 share of oil profits has been lavished on a Saudi Arabian Nights...
...oilmen and the golden flood began to spout out of the Arabian American Oil Co.'s wells, the government received an income in royalties and taxes of about $200 million-and managed to spend it all and $50 million besides. Since World War II, according to Shwadran's calculations, the King of Saudi Arabia has run through $1.4 billion paid him by the oil companies...
Where has it all gone? Certainly not much of it to better the lot of the country's estimated 5,000,000 citizens. Says Shwadran: "Life expectancy in Saudi Arabia is 33 years; tuberculosis is prevalent; 70% of the population have trachoma, and at least 40% suffer from syphilis...
...estimated that the per capita income was only $45." London's Anti-Slavery Society calculates that as many as a quarter of a million Saudi Arabians may actually be living still in slavery. Yet, taking some sketchy budget figures published a few years ago, Shwadran notes that royal household affairs were allotted $27.9 million, compared with $10.7 million for public health, education and social services combined. The estimates also listed $36 million for defense, $27 million to pay debts, and $44 million for "General Development "without, says Shwadran, providing any "clue as to whether it was for wealth-producing...
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