Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...companies of Cameron Highlanders were airlifted from Kenya to Persian Gulf bases, two British frigates slipped into the Sultan's coastal waters and four R.A.F. jet fighters roared up from a Persian Gulf sandstrip to fire rockets and cannon into the mud-brick-walled rebel citadels in the mountains of Oman. Cairo's press and radio filled the air with shouts about "a British attack on Arab nationalism." Actually it was not much of a war; only the current state of Middle East nerves made it front-page news...
...contending against an electorate of the future-a nationalist movement of young and educated men-but against a reactionary rival." The British showed their might almost hesitantly. They acted in Oman, fearing that if they did not, their position would be weakened along the whole uneasy Persian Gulf coast. British preponderance on the oil coast, first created in the days when Britain wanted to protect its passage to India, rests on protective arrangements made long ago to safeguard minor sovereigns and sheiks around the gulf from wild tribal attacks out of the hinterland. The discovery of oil-or the hope...
...Britain no longer has a specific individual role to play in the lands bordering the eastern Mediterranean (Friend Iraq would be defended by the Baghdad Pact as a whole). "The emphasis has shifted south of the Suez Canal to the Arabian peninsula area," declared Sandys. The oil-rich Persian Gulf sheikdoms, including Kuwait, remain Britain's special concern and might have to be defended by Britain alone, especially against local disturbances. This meant that Cyprus, lying on the wrong end of the lost canal, was no longer the strategic spot for Britain's Middle East command headquarters...
...highlands is salubrious, and there is plenty of room and rugged country for troop training as well as fairly good communications and storage facilities. Mombasa, an Indian Ocean seaport the royal navy wants to develop now that it is losing Trincomalee in Ceylon, has direct communications with the Persian Gulf, without permission of Nasser. Finally, now that the Mau Mau are quelled, the Kenya natives are friendlier than the population in Cyprus. Accordingly, Sandys returned last month convinced that Britain's main Middle East base should be moved south from Cyprus to Kenya, and Cyprus kept only...
...opens up all Iran outside the older Persian Gulf fields-now being developed by a consortium of British, Dutch, French and 14 U.S. oil firms. For exploration, the land will be divided into blocks of some 80,000 sq. kil., with an unspecified third of the area held in reserve for future exploitation. It will allow foreign companies either to share the costs of exploration and development with the state-owned National Iranian Oil Co., or go it alone; in either case NIOC will take at least half the profits. Among the areas opened up: the fabulous Qum oilfield...