Former Premier Yitzhak Rabin warned Monday that the wave of Moslem extremism could endanger the present regime in Saudi Arabia. In a television interview he described the Iranian revolution as the toughest blow the U.S. and the West had suffered in this region since the end of World War II. It meant that one of the two main oil-supplying states might well come under Soviet influence, Rabin said.
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