Word: iraq
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...government is vigilant about dissent, and the occasional crackdowns can be both swift and harsh. Last April, for example, 200 people were rounded up and imprisoned on the eve of the Baath Party Congress, probably because they were not Assad men. Publicly, however, they were charged with aiding Iraq, which is governed by a rival wing of the Baath movement. Although relations between Baghdad and Damascus have improved, the two neighbors have frequently been at the brink of war - sometimes over ideology, but sometimes over rights to the waters of the Euphrates River. Last fall both governments rushed troops...
Manpower Planes Tanks Artillery Egypt 857,500 500 1,975 1,500 Syria 280,000 400 1,470 775 Iraq 385,000 247 1,290 750 Jordan 110,250 42 440 231 Arab 1,632,750 1,189 5,175 2,256 Total Israel 606,000 461 4,865 860 SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STRATEGIC STUDIES
...increase represents a huge victory for OPEC'S price doves, led in Vienna by Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani. He was joined, surprisingly, by the delegation from Algeria, previously a hard-liner on oil prices. On the hawk side, a bloc including Libya and Iraq lined up behind Iran's Interior Minister Jamshid Amuzegar to demand initially a boost of 20% or more. Personally, no love is lost between Amuzegar and Yamani, and the arguments became sulfurous. At one point, Yamani stormed out of the closed meeting. He then caught a plane for London...
...OPEC states, notably Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, are still taking in more money than they can spend. But at least four member countries-Venezuela, Algeria, Iran and Iraq-are expected to have to borrow up to $2 billion in international money markets this year. Little more than a year ago, they were wallowing in surplus cash. A sampler of conditions in key producing states...
...Norwegians, already rich in money and energy supplies, North Sea oil means a chance to become richer still as the "blue-eyed Arabs of the North." By the 1980s, Norway could be producing 1.8 million bbl. daily-ten times its domestic needs-and exporting as much oil as Iraq and Libya do now. For the other North Sea participants-Denmark, The Netherlands and West Germany-the waters already promise abundant oil and natural gas. It was in Holland, in fact, that a giant onshore gas discovery in 1959 pointed rightly to further riches under the North...