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...theater. An additional 150,000 are scheduled to join them. But because the military's transportation systems are overloaded, some ground forces now in Europe and the U.S. are not due in Saudi Arabia until late January. Even if all of them were in place by the U.N.'s cutoff date, it would take two or three weeks to acclimatize the new arrivals...
...crisis was touched off two weeks ago when Michael Williams, a mid-level Education official in charge of civil rights, announced a startling reinterpretation of existing federal anti-discrimination laws. College scholarships exclusively earmarked for minority students are illegal, he declared, and institutions that offer them may face a cutoff of federal funds. Colleges and universities around the country immediately set off alarm bells and sent the Administration scrambling to clarify a policy that Williams had apparently enunciated without consulting the White House...
...concentrated close to shore in water as shallow as 9 m (30 ft.). But now that most of those easy-to-tap reserves are depleted, oilmen are looking to the slopes of the continental shelf, hundreds of meters deep and 160 km (100 miles) or more from land. The cutoff of oil supplies from Kuwait and Iraq and the resulting run-up in prices have lent new urgency to the exploration ventures, some of which have been in the works for a few years. "Oil at $30 to $40 a barrel is suddenly making every project that boosts our domestic...
...freeze on trade with Iraq and Kuwait is buffeting a lot of people, from U.S. manufacturers of oil-field equipment to Irish meat producers to Italian shipbuilders. If U.N. sanctions produced a cutoff in trade with Iraq, they also led Iraq to suspend payment on outstanding debts. The result is dislocation and even hardship among Iraq's erstwhile commercial partners...
...response. This refusal risks violating the Case-Zablocki Act of 1972, which requires the Secretary of State to submit to Congress within 60 days the substance of all international accords, written or oral. A year ago, failure to do so would have raised the threat of a funding cutoff, but that provision of the act was inadvertently allowed to lapse this year. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans to put this stricture back on the books next year. In the meantime, it has been negotiating with the White House for a look at the Saudi agreements, so far without success...