Word: bahrain
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...furious exporters of both military hardware and modern technology to the Middle East. Now a small U.S. outfit has uncovered a rich Arab market for a somewhat less strategic item: cow manure. RJB Sales Export Inc. of Sequim, Wash., has contracted with the Persian Gulf sheikdoms of Dubai and Bahrain to provide at least 50,000 metric tons of liquefied cow manure each month for three years. Total sales could reach $1.2 billion...
...Dhabi, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait. Qatar and Saudi Arabia...
...prospect obviously pleases the Nixon Administration. Since Britain, the region's longtime constable, withdrew from the Persian Gulf in 1971, the U.S. has made no attempt to fill the power vacuum; its Middle East naval force based in Bahrain remains at two destroyers. But, faced with a growing shortage of energy and increased Soviet influence in the gulf area, the U.S. is eager to ensure its Middle East sources of oil. This can be achieved, Washington feels, by arming friendly Iran, as well as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait...
Political Clout. The union was, and is, far from perfect. Qatar (pop. 85,000) refused to join because its proposed political clout would not be consonant with its huge economic wealth (roughly $240 million annually in oil royalties, or $2,824 per capita). The island sheikdom of Bahrain also declined; as the most populous (250,000) of the Trucial States it wanted more power than the other sheiks were willing to give. Both countries declared independence and have joined the United Nations, as has the Union. Qatar is now the U.N.'s smallest member...
...threat to the Strait of Malacca, through which Japan gets its oil from the Middle East, as well as to Indonesia and even Australia. The U.S. until now has had only a brace of destroyers and the Valcour, an ex-seaplane tender stationed at the former British base in Bahrain. From now on, though, task forces from the Seventh Fleet will be periodically patrolling the strategic sea lanes and showing neutral nations something other than the Russian flag...