Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went a noxious haze that had shrouded the city. Cement mixers rather than armored vehicles, rumble through the streets. The port has been restored to 50% of prewar capacity and once again trucks rattle off the piers and up the winding mountain roads toward delivery points throughout the Persian Gulf. Beirut's airport, the busiest in the Arab world (400 weekly flights) before it was shut down by artillery fire, has reopened and handles about 75% of its old traffic volume. The industrial district of Mekhalles, badly damaged during the 52-day siege of the adjoining Palestinian camp...
...rich Arab states for help since cutting himself off from Moscow. In addition to its Soviet debts, Egypt also owes $8.2 billion elsewhere and annually runs a staggering balance of payments deficit of $1.5 billion. The U.S., Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states helped this year with a $5.4 billion package that allowed Egypt to pay off some short-term obligations and thus save $200 million in service charges. But even with this assistance the Egyptian economy is in terrible shape. To placate his citizens, Sadat has kept the price of food staples artificially low by putting up government...
...larger sense, the deals raise serious questions about the Administration's overall judgement in its conduct of foreign affairs. Weapons sales to Iran could spark a new arms race in the Persian Gulf, and the personnel needed to train the Iranians will add to an American presence in that part of the world that is already too large. Of even greater importance is the absence of any notion of the Shah's plans, of what he wants to do with the billions the U.S. has been sending...
...plunging headlong into the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, and such cynical profit taking gave the oil companies a black eye. Few can forget how, in their annual reports for 1974, the oil companies showed hefty increases in their profits over the preceding year: Exxon up 28.6%, Gulf up 33%, Mobil...
...took off from Palma, two Arabic-speaking men and two women pulled out pistols and grenades and ordered the pilot to change course. So began a terrifying odyssey for the 82 other passengers and the five-man crew. For 2½ days, they were held in the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Early this week, they were flown to Aden, South Yemen, after being refused permission to land in Oman. They faced the possibility of death if the skyjackers' demands were not met. Their fate, moreover, was perilously linked with that of Hanns-Martin...