Word: gulfs
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Sept. 17-21 - A severe hurricane sweeps in from the Gulf of Mexico, causing widespread damage in Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana and killing at least 100. On Sept. 21, in the hurricane's aftermath, flood waters near New Orleans kill about...
STATUS Subject to rigorous inspection since its defeat in the 1991 Gulf War. U.N. inspections seem to have halted progress in weapons development RANGE...
Whatever its imperfections, Brinkley's is a rich, energetic American story. His account of Carter's behavior during the run-up to the Gulf War is especially fascinating. Here is the anti-presidency brought to logical extreme: a direct collision, over the most serious issue (imminent war) between the former President and the sitting President. As Brinkley writes, "Carter was prepared to do just about anything to prevent a Middle East war, even if it meant working against his own government." Carter, close friend of Yasser Arafat (and, at one point, his virtual speechwriter) and hero in the Arab world...
...This is all ridiculous," says Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, an adviser to the ministers of petroleum and foreign affairs in Tehran, as he draws a map of proposed routes through Russia and Turkey. "We have our hands in the Caspian Sea and our feet in the Persian Gulf, the simplest outlet for this energy...
...Almaty, capital of Kazakhstan. More than 200 executives and experts from the region's oil consortiums gathered to present and compare their pet plans. To everyone's surprise, Total, the French oil giant, put forward revised numbers for its preferred option, a north-south pipeline through Iran to the gulf. By these new estimates, the Iran link would cost about $4 billion and would not be operational until 2004. This meant the line through Iran would cost as much and take as long to build as the east-west system through Turkey...