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...Saudis still bankrolling Iraq, they openly supported Kuwait's assistance to Baghdad. Many observers expect Iran to avenge the Mecca deaths by launching terrorist acts on Saudi Arabian soil or by fomenting trouble among the country's 350,000 or so Shi'ites, most of whom live in the oil-rich eastern provinces...
More significantly, Reagan reasserted the American role in the Persian Gulf and in fact extended it. The Administration announced it had decided to fly the U.S. flag over eleven oil tankers belonging to Kuwait, an oil-rich Persian Gulf state whose ships have frequently been bombed by Iranian planes. The reflagged Kuwaiti tankers will be entitled to U.S. Navy protection...
...than to report and reflect on it. This requires a strong ego, the kind Rosenthal developed with his power as an editor. Ego seems to have come almost from birth to two columnists conspicuous for it, William F. Buckley and George F. Will. Buckley is the beneficiary of an oil-rich upbringing and a thorough grounding in Roman Catholic thought. Will's father was a college professor, and George was presumably encouraged to air his youthful opinions at the dinner table. After all, a columnist is expected to be wise on short notice, and is tempted to make judgments that...
Although it is not clear what came of the Brunei suggestion, U.S. officials said last week that the State Department persuaded the sultan of the oil-rich Asian kingdom to donate millions of dollars to Nicaraguan Contra rebels this year. The Los Angeles Times said the money went through a Swiss bank account controlled by North...
...government sources, speaking on condition they not be identified, confirmed a report in The Los Angeles Times on Saturday that the ruler of oil-rich Brunei, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, agreed to give millions of dollars to the Contras in Central America...