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...importance today. Soviet missile-firing submarines, for example, now have to leave the ice-locked areas around Murmansk and Archangel through narrow channels where they can easily be tracked by U.S. antisubmarine forces. They would be much harder to detect if they could slip out of ports on the Arabian...
...third day, the whole conference moved into Yamani's hotel suite for a marathon twelve-hour session. While the Saudi minister padded back and forth serving English tea, and his guests munched on Algerian dates, an idea was floated to lift Arabian light oil to $26 as a new floor price, but fix a ceiling at $30. This was rejected by Libya, Algeria and Iran...
...Islamic revolution in Iran has sent out shock waves of confusion and distress throughout the monarchies of the Middle East. A state of jitters prevails in the Arabian peninsula, whose petroleum exports are vital to the security of the U.S. and its allies. The rulers of Saudi Arabia, the largest oil exporter of all, are reported to be frightened; a new set of security regulations is in force throughout the country. The governments of the tiny states of the Persian Gulf are also worried, about both their Shi'ite and Palestinian populations and about the wave of Islamic fundamentalism...
...officials later confirmed that although some of the intruders were indeed religious zealots, the majority were politically motivated guerrillas who were trying to destabilize the country. Some Saudis believe that the armed men may have been trained in South Yemen, the Marxist state at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Their real leader, according to Saudi officials, was an Islamic nationalist named Juhaman Otabi, who had once worked for the government but had been dismissed and flogged for drinking liquor...
...stardom in The Hurricane, a 1937 spectacular that also helped launch Dorothy Lamour; of gunshot wounds that apparently were self-inflicted; in Sher man Oaks, Calif. A champion swimmer who grew up in Tahiti, Hall was best known for portraying loincloth-clad is landers and bare-chested sheiks (Arabian Nights...