Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ongoing mayhem in the region may be rooted in oil politics, says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "There is suspicion that elements in the Russian security forces have given support to attacks on Shevardnadze," says Meier. Part of the reason might be that Western oil companies plan to route an Azerbaijan-Turkey oil pipeline through Georgia rather than Russia. "Russian interests would like to have some control over the pipeline, and Shevardnadze is regarded as a guarantor of Western interests in the region...
...replaced by Saddam II, another Baathist general ready to continue the military dictatorship. More likely still, a headless Iraq would go the way of Lebanon, fractured among Kurds in the north, Shi'ites in the south and Sunnis in the center egged on by meddling neighbor states pursuing oil and ethnic interests...
...oceanographer Richard Fairbanks was floating in the equatorial Pacific gathering data that could tell researchers about El Ninos going back thousands of years. Working aboard the research vessel Moana Wave, Fairbanks spent weeks at El Nino's very epicenter, a patch of ocean near Christmas Island. Using a powerful oil drill, he and his colleagues repeatedly bored into ancient reef beds buried beneath the sea floor, pulling up chunks of coral as white as sun-bleached bone...
...same: No U.S. strike aircraft will fly out of Saudi bases. Cohen did say he expected the Saudis to at least allow support planes on their airstrips. En route to Kuwait, he told reporters it's harder to muster support when Saddam isn't "raping and pillaging and setting oil wells on fire...
...Russia - Iraq still owes Russia billions of dollars for weapons and is eager to cut huge oil deals with the former Soviet patron. Not surprisingly, it's leading the diplomatic effort to avoid any military showdown and is eager to see the sanctions lifted...