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Foreign Workers in Saudi Arabia Getting Edgy : Economy: Many feel their employers, bowing to official pressure, may not be taking adequate steps to ensure their safety.

August 25, 1990 | MICHAEL ROSS, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Michael Ross of The Times' Washington Bureau is a member of the Pentagon press pool currently in Saudi Arabia. This report was written for the pool, whose members are not allowed to disclose their exact location. At a party the other night for workers from abroad, the mood was almost jovial, until a young Briton spoke up. "Have you heard?" he asked, fidgeting nervously with a plastic cup of Pepsi. "British Aerospace has issued its employees gas masks and nerve-gas antidotes."

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Foreign Workers in Saudi Arabia Getting Edgy : Economy: Many feel their employers, bowing to official pressure, may not be taking adequate steps to ensure their safety.

August 25, 1990 | MICHAEL ROSS, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Michael Ross of The Times' Washington Bureau is a member of the Pentagon press pool currently in Saudi Arabia. This report was written for the pool, whose members are not allowed to disclose their exact location. At a party the other night for workers from abroad, the mood was almost jovial, until a young Briton spoke up. "Have you heard?" he asked, fidgeting nervously with a plastic cup of Pepsi. "British Aerospace has issued its employees gas masks and nerve-gas antidotes."

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