Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spill endangers marine life as well as industrial installations along the shoreline. The gravest threat is to the huge desalination plants that Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the other arid nations depend on for their drinking water. From Saudi Arabia to the Straits of Hormuz last week, armies of workmen were ringing the shore with floating plastic booms designed to protect the plants' intake valves. Meanwhile, panicky shoppers in Qatar went on a hoarding spree, pushing the price of bottled mineral water to almost $1 a liter-more than five times the OPEC price for crude oil. Officials from Iran...
...gulf is a fertile breeding ground for jumbo shrimp and more than 200 kinds of fish, including tuna and sea bass. Although the extent of damage to marine life is not yet known, dead fish are already washing ashore in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Some officials fear that the contamination may destroy a year's catch of some varieties...
...that a delay will increase the pressure on Arab countries to call for a broader cease-fire in the war that Iraq started in 1980 and that it is now eager to end. Iran, on the other hand, may expect the deteriorating environment to help split Iraq from Saudi Arabia and the smaller gulf states, which have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the Iraqi war effort. If such hopes are being nurtured in the Iranian capital of Tehran, they are unrealistic. Both sides in the Iran-Iraq war are, as a Western diplomat puts it, "obsessed with getting...
...some respects, those two giants should actually be helped by $29 oil. Reason: both are U.S. partners-along with Mobil and Standard Oil of California-in Aramco, which produces most of Saudi Arabia's oil. All four had been paying the official $34 OPEC price for the Saudi crude, even though cheaper supplies were available elsewhere. Now the March price cut has freed them of that burden. So far, however, analysts have seen few immediate signs of improvement in the overall industry outlook. Says William Randol of First Boston, an investment banking firm: "This year's first-quarter...
...apparent candor of his speakers carries Gray's accounts of these interviews past Western preconceptions for a true "insider's view." In one of many long discussions with Sultana, a California-educated princess about to marry a Saudi businessman, Gray learns why women in Saudi Arabia accept wearing full-length veils and submitting to the wills of their husbands and fathers...