Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...council vote theoretically indicates the readiness of other major powers such as the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom to join in a military action against Iraq. But it is is generally understood as expressing the willingness of these powers to allow the United States to deploy its sizeable Mideast force directly against Iraqi positions...
...Your country, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has supported the Palestinians in many ways over the years. Now their principal representative, the P.L.O., is supporting Saddam Hussein. Is there any sense in which you feel this represents a betrayal or a lack of gratitude...
...doing has underscored some of the problems confronting the coalition against Saddam in the gulf. The state-controlled media continue to attack the U.S. bitterly for its support of Israel. In addition, Damascus officials have asserted that the 3,000 Syrian troops in Saudi Arabia will defend the desert kingdom but will not participate in an attack against the army of another Arab nation, even though Saddam and Assad, who head rival wings of the socialist Baath party, bitterly resent each other...
...axiomatic to say that Saudi Arabia is deeply influenced by religious conservatives, but the specifics are often surprising. When the Sunday Times of London recently published excerpts of Ronald Reagan's memoirs, for example, Saudi censors gathered all the copies that reached the kingdom and methodically blacked out a half-page photograph. The offending scene: Reagan bussing his wife on the lips...
...committed a crime. The committee found there was no specific prohibition in the Koran on driving. In fact, during the time of the Prophet, women regularly led camels across the desert. Even now, Bedouin women have regularly been permitted to drive cars and trucks in isolated parts of the kingdom. The committee nevertheless gently advised against repeating the experiment...