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The way they were.(photographs of Aramco, Saudi-American consortium that developed oil fields in Saudi Arabi)(Illustration)(Brief Article)
Publication: The New Yorker Publication Date: 15-APR-02 Author: Lemann, Nicholas |
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COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
In February, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt, two months before his death, conducted the first-ever meeting between an American President and an Arab king, when Ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia, came aboard Roosevelt's ship in the Suez Canal. F.D.R. was on his way back from the postwar Yalta Conference,...
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