Word: arabia
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After several tankers and cargo carriers were damaged by mines floating in the Red Sea earlier this summer, the navies of Britain, Italy, France and the U.S. sent ships to help Egypt and Saudi Arabia sweep their waters clean. Curiously, the extensive international search effort, involving some two dozen vessels and helicopters, has failed to find any mines. Nonetheless, according to the intelligence department of Lloyd's of London, 18 ships were damaged by mines between July 9 and Aug. 15. The U.S. plans to wind up its part of the operation this week, barring any new developments...
...known to be angry and frustrated over its inability to stop its enemy Iraq from attacking tankers using Iranian oil facilities in the Persian Gulf. The Iranians were also upset about Iraq's intention to export more of its own oil via planned pipelines through Jordan and Saudi Arabia. So it made sense to suppose that Iran might have planted mines in the Red Sea as a way of retaliating against each of those countries as well as against Egypt, which has given heavy support to Iraq in its four-year-old war with Iran. But Khomeini two weeks...
...helicopters and a contingent of about 200 men aboard the Shreveport, an amphibious transport vessel that entered the Gulf of Suez at midweek. The Shreveport joined the U.S. oceanographic ship the Harkness, where 15 mine-warfare experts were already at work. Later the U.S. sent three helicopters to Saudi Arabia at the Saudis' request. Italian vessels were due in the area this week...
Last winter in Bangalore, India, a pair of Englishmen stood peering through camera lenses. Two more Westerners squinting into viewfinders - nothing new to India. But these were no tourists out for holiday views of the East. One was Sir David Lean, director of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, shooting his first film in 14 years, an adaptation of E.M. Forster's A Pas sage to India. A few yards away was Lord Snowdon, the photographer who expelled posture and plumage from celebrity portraits, arching for shots of the cast and crew...
...gathered to watch France defeat Brazil 2-0 in the final match last Saturday. The confrontation was the climax of a cross-country tournament that drew cheering crowds in Cambridge, Mass., Annapolis, Md., and Palo Alto, Calif., and had as competitors teams from such unlikely lands as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Cameroon. Both finalists survived tense overtime tests to reach the championship contest: France beat Yugoslavia 4-2, while Brazil nipped Italy 2-1. Some of the action was almost tough enough to warrant shoulder pads and helmets; in the semifinal, France's Didier Senac fractured his skull...