Word: gulf
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Ever since the early 19th century, citizens of Alabama and Tennessee have periodically urged the Federal Government to build a waterway linking the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers. Such a canal would provide a direct outlet to the Gulf of Mexico for all the barge traffic in the Ohio River Basin and southern Appalachia. After years of studies and debates, Congress finally authorized the Tenn-Tom project in 1946, and after 2½ decades more of planning and preparation, construction began in 1972. Today the project is still only one-quarter complete, leaving a deep gash in the countryside that looks...
Although the union instructed workers to report to work yesterday, workers at one Gulf Oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas struck while others honored a picket line in front of an ARCO plant, also in Port Arthur...
...PERSIAN GULF. Poor intelligence and diplomatic shortsightedness have trapped the U.S. in an increasingly difficult position in Iran. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi could fall any hour, yet Carter has found no course but to continue supporting him, at least publicly. The fall of the Shah, which many now predict, would change the equations of power, from Egypt and Ethiopia all the way east to Pakistan. The helplessness of the U.S. to shape events in Iran is beginning to sap Saudi Arabia's confidence in the ability of the U.S. to protect the region from Soviet penetration, a hazard that...
...major stake in the outcome of the Shah's effort watched and waited uneasily. Iran is vital to the industrialized world not only because it is the second largest exporter of crude oil in the Middle East, but also because it is the "policeman" of the crucial Persian Gulf sea-lanes through which 40% of the non-Communist world's oil is shipped. The U.S. gets 8% of its imported crude from Iran: Western European countries from 20% to 40% of their supply. The impact of the dead stop in Iranian oil shipments has not yet been felt...
...position." On the advice of former Under Secretary of State George Ball, who has just completed a crash study on Iranian policy for the Carter Administration, the U.S. is urging the Shah to modify his absolute rule in order to restore stability in Iran and the Persian Gulf. The increase of Soviet influence in the region (see map), most recently in Afghanistan, worries the U.S. The Administration is also concerned about the effects of Iran's instability on such other monarchies as Jordan and the king of petropowers, Saudi Arabia...