, the non- communist world's No. 1 oil producer, to the economic health of the West. Five years later, the Saudis are among the first to be consulted by Washington on Mideast matters; 30,000 Americans work in the arid kingdom on economic and military projects; 10,000 young Saudis study at universities in the United States. Even so, the Saudis remain a bit of a mystery, with their Islamic conservatism, their Bedouin ways, their quiet use of dollar di- plomacy in Africa and the Arab states. Here William...
as the world's pre-eminent Arab state stems mainly from the 1973 oil embargo. What outsiders perceived as a sudden occurrence, however, had in fact been evolving gradually over a period of several years. Indeed, the kingdom, under the leader- ship of King Faisal (r. 1964-75), had been playing a growing role in Arab summit gatherings since the disastrous June 1967 war against Israel.
By the end of 1967, the Saudis had patched up differences with Egypt that had led the two nations to lock horns...
is sitting on one-quarter of the world's oil. Of the globe's oil producers, it has the greatest potential for sustained, large-scale expansion of production capacity-the amount of oil it could be pumping. The kingdom's production capacity has been increasing steadily for some time. Between 1960 and 1977, the Saudi share of OPEC production doubled; Saudi Arabia also accounted for 40 percent of the total increase in world produc- tion between 1970 and 1977. Some 20 percent of U.S. oil imports come...
P. M. Holt et al. (Cambridge, 1970, 2 vols., cloth; 1977, 4 vols., paper). This work, hailed British and Ameri- can scholars, is a target of a slashing new attack on studies of Islam by Westerners. In Orientalism (Pan-theon, 1978), Edward W. Said, a Co- lumbia University professor of com- parative literature and winner of the first (1 976) Lionel Trilling Award for
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criticism, writes that "none of the innumerable Orientalist texts on Is- lam, including their...
the early 20th century, first- rate research universities rivaling their European models.
From the start, campus debate has been vigorous-over academic free- dom, admissions policy, the cur- riculum, research. Should Harvard tolerate heretics (Cotton Mather, 1702)? Are the classics an anach-ronism (The Yale Report, 1828)? Must the university deal with populist as well as aristocratic tastes (Ezra Cor- nell, 1865)?
In Laurence Veysey's view (The Emergence of the American Univer- sity, Chicago,...
Readers' letters to the editors of Soviet women's magazines depict a society where household appliances break down, hus- bands drink heavily, and the process of divorce is often costly and time-consuming; where wage scales are low, where child care conflicts with the need to work, and husbands refuse to help with the household chores.
One cartoon shows a frenzied wife, exhausted from eight hours on the job, hurrying to prepare her family's supper. The husband, in house slippers, lounges in front...
A RECURRING FEVER
Economists still haggle over a proper definition of inflation, but most Americans know inflation's impact: rising prices. From Kennedy to Nixon to Carter, Washington's stop-and-go anti- inflation strategies have proved inadequate. Here the editors outline the postwar record, and economist Laurence Seidman describes the latest proposed remedy.
According to Plutarch, Athens under Solon (fl. 600 B.c.) wrestled with severe inflation after depreciation of the mina. To restore stabi...
decree. Since then, India has receded from the headlines (ex- cept during President Carter's flying visit last January). The na- tion's current economic and political health is relatively good, but the long-term outlook is a matter of dispute. We present here some diverse views. Former diplomat Edward O'Neill traces Indian-American relations since the bloody Moslem-Hindu Par- tition of the subcontinent in 1947; journalist B. G. Verghese looks at India's political history; and economist Lawrence...
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Eighteen months ago, the West hailed India's return to democ- racy after Prime Minister Morarji Desai took office in the wake of voters' rejection of Indira Gandhi and her "Emergency" rule by decree. Since then, India has receded from the headlines (ex- cept during President Carter's flying visit last January). The na- tion's current economic and political health is relatively good, but the long-term outlook is a matter of dispute. We present here some diverse views. Former diplomat...
n Parliament-and the Prime Minis- ter's office.
The Congress held the country together in 1948 during the appalling trauma of Partition, when millions of people moved between Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan and uncounted hun- dreds of thousands were slaughtered on the basis of their reli- gious faiths. The Congress shaped India's 1950 Constitution and established the democratic framework that its latter-day leader, Indira Gandhi, drastically abridged before she, and the party, were brought down...