Word: gulf
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...sudden drop in the value of its main sources of foreign exchange. Because of the collapse in oil prices, exports of crude from Sinai oil wells may fall from last year's $2.8 billion to as little as $1.5 billion in 1986. Remittances from Egyptians working in the Persian Gulf declined by $300 million, to $3.5 billion, this year and are expected to continue falling as the major oil producers in the region cut back production. In addition, the country has suffered a 20% decline in its $1 billion-a-year tourist trade, principally because of American fear of terrorism...
Political tensions could destroy the truce among OPEC nations. Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been strained for years. The Saudis have been financing Iraqi attacks against Iran, which has itself fired upon Saudi oil tankers in the Persian Gulf region...
Fortune Hunter Mel Fisher might argue about that appraisal. Some 30 miles out from Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, his four salvage tugs lay at anchor last week 60 ft. above the remains of the Spanish galleon Atocha. The square-rigged vessel sank in a hurricane in 1622, carrying 260 crew members and passengers, and a priceless cargo, to the bottom. From the tugs, divers employed by Fisher's Treasure Salvors, Inc., have brought to the surface a fortune in emeralds, gold and silver bars, coins, bags of gold dust and lengths of golden chains...
...regard. Nonetheless, on arrival in Amman, Bush and his wife Barbara enjoyed a dinner with the King and his American-born wife, Queen Noor. Said a Bush aide: "They got along like back-porch neighbors." After a sojourn at the King's palace on the Gulf of Aqaba, Bush was scheduled to go on to Cairo for talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
...group of Soviet schoolchildren visiting the Kremlin; the U.S.S.R. then blames the attack on West German terrorists, launches an invasion of Central Europe, captures Iceland and rushes the navy into action in an attempt to control the North Atlantic sea-lanes--all as a ruse for grabbing Persian Gulf oil facilities. The pretext serves Clancy better than it does the Soviets: it provides a fine backdrop for his account of strategies and shoot-outs...