Word: arabian
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...that terrorized Paris in September and to free the French hostages held in Lebanon. In pursuit of these goals, France reportedly was also in the midst of negotiating an arms deal with Syria, though last week French officials vigorously denied it. Still, Interior Minister Charles Pasqua told a Saudi Arabian newspaper that there was now "real collaboration" between French and Syrian intelligence services to fight terrorism. He added that France's Syrian friends were "pained and shocked" to hear themselves accused in the Paris bombings...
...start of the fractious meeting it seemed that any agreement might be scuttled by Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali Khalifa Al-Sabah and his Saudi Arabian counterpart Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, OPEC's two richest members, had insisted on bolstering their production by some 10%. In the end, Saudi Arabia accepted no increase for itself and instead offered to donate its share of the 200,000 bbl.-a-day production hike to Kuwait...
Sccord has acknowledged giving the Contras advice, but "has steadfastly denied that he is a conduit or a middleman for Saudi Arabian aid," said his lawyer Tom Green...
...Wilson and Glass will join forces again with a new opera based on the tales of the Arabian nights. Their last collaboration was the Rome section of Wilson's global epic, the CIVIL warS, which will be performed in December as the closing attraction of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, now in its fourth season. The academy, affectionately known as BAM, has become a national showcase for avant-garde work; its president, Harvey Lichtenstein, is the movement's Sol Hurok. When Lichtenstein courageously produced Wilson's The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud...
...wake of the Ayatollah Khomeini's death, civil war breaks out in Iran. Soviet troops begin to mass in Kurdistan and shoot down an American reconnaissance plane. In response, United States warships race toward the Arabian...