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Since this spring, Cairo-Based Correspondent David S. Jackson has logged thousands of miles crisscrossing the gulf region from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, Kuwait, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. His real preparation for this week's assignment, however, began nearly nine years ago, when he started covering Khomeini's fundamentalist Islamic revolution. That brought him eyeball to eyeball with the Ayatullah, whom Jackson interviewed in a Paris suburb in 1979. "Back then," recalls Jackson, "none of us expected Khomeini would still be as domineering, provocative and full of vitality as his revolution. The passions that I saw sweeping the country then...
...already borrowing abroad and using foreign currency reserves to finance budget shortfalls. The United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven sheikdoms, has been politically weakened by the oil-price collapse. The federal government that binds the state together is virtually broke, and the two leading emirates, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, are reluctant to dip into their own shrunken treasuries to bail...
Nigeria's decision made it more likely that other restless members, like Abu Dhabi, will tear away, possibly leading to anarchy among OPEC members and a sharp slide in oil prices. "This has got to panic every oil-producing nation," says Lawrence Goldstein, executive vice president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation. "In the next few days we will find out what OPEC is made of." Most oil-industry insiders believe, though, that the group will try to avoid cutting its price, at least by much. Their shared interest in keeping world petroleum prices stable will help resolve many...
...some things can never be explained to the TV-educated audience for whom he writes. So he doesn't even try. What, for instance, is a "cipher pad"? Why haven't the Soviets flattened the Afghan guerilla-controlled town of Girishk? And do you really expect to take Abu Dhabi with...
Bulliet traveled to the area to research the book, which is replete with vivid little descriptions of American lushes in "dry" Saudi Arabia, of rebels in Afghanistan, of rich Europeans in Abu Dhabi. But this is the stuff that's easy to write. More impressive is the author's ability to portray everday American life in an entertaining manner. There is a Harvard secretary who moonlights as an amateur detective until she meets a real one. There is the aggressive Congressional aide who draws a little dagger next to the name of the CIA official his boss is about...