Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regime has been generating border trouble with both Iran to the east and Kuwait to the south. Skirmishes between Iraqi and Iranian border guards are common. Russia (along with China) has supplied weapons to guerrillas trying to overthrow Sultan Qabus of Oman. If these rebels were successful, they could bottleneck the gulf by sinking a supertanker in the narrow channel that is now negotiated by 100 ships in the Strait of Hormuz each day. The short-range Soviet aim seems to be to keep the U.S. on edge by disrupting the calm of the gulf. But there is a long...
...sale of U.S. petroleum-testing equipment to the Soviets and the construction of a bearing plant at the Kama River truck factory. "We feel that we are in a good position to learn about which of the five-year projects in Eastern Europe has reached an economic or political bottleneck," says Johnson. "At that stage, we take the problem to U.S. firms...
...inspected Uganda's military bases seeking possible sites for transit camps for the 40,000 to 50,000 Asians of British citizenship whom he has ordered expelled by Nov. 7. Amin accuses the British government of not granting immigration vouchers quickly enough, but the real bottleneck is his own government-which, as of last week, had issued exit permits for only 60 Asians. Nonetheless, Amin insists that any Asians still in the country on Nov. 7 will be interned. The decision to uproot the Asian community, he has said, came straight from Allah...
...block its advance, the report recommends setting up a kind of anti-bee Maginot Line across the natural bottleneck of Central America. All it would take is the development of a completely new species whose dominant traits would make it "relatively unaggressive, nonswarming, nonmigratory and equal to the Brazilian bee in foraging activity." This "genetic barrier" would in effect tame the Brazilian bee by breeding out the worst qualities...