JEDDAH, 4 March 2004 — The Education Ministry has recalled one million notebooks from schools around the Kingdom because they contain mistakes, including references to the “Persian Gulf,” Al-Watan reported yesterday. A map in the notebooks also inaccurately represented Saudi Arabia’s southern border with Yemen, the paper said. It said a senior ministry official had told the agency, which produced the books to halt distribution and withdraw those already handed out and explain how it would rectify the errors.
