Word: oman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist world's crude shipments originate. The gulf at its neck narrows until the supertanker channel is only twelve miles wide at the Strait of Hormuz, which Premier Hoveida calls "our jugular vein." Iran worries that dissident forces, like the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman, which is currently fighting Sultan Qabus in Oman, could block the strait by sinking a supertanker. The Shah's response has been a pride of military powers so vast that he not only can neutralize the guerrillas but also dominate the gulf. Says one U.S. diplomat: "The Arabs like...
...received the first major chunk. There are a lot of petrodollars to go around. Kuwait recently has begun pumping money into shares of unidentified U.S. and European companies, and Abu Dhabi plans to buy a major interest in a big office building in London. Sultan Qabus bin Said of Oman even got into the act last week: he reportedly paid $4 million for a German hotel and 4,000 surrounding acres. He wants to turn it into a summer residence for his mother...
...countries are Sudan, Jordan, Oman, Cyprus, Iran and Egypt, he said...
...that the Iraqis will start some kind of adventure in the Persian Gulf, and if the countries there do not ask for my assistance, I will be very embarrassed about what to do. That is why I propose some kind of regional defensive agreement. So far, except for Oman, we have no reply...
...another source of friction is Iran's dispatch of an estimated 1,500-man commando brigade to the Persian Gulf sultanate of Oman, where it is helping 11,000 loyalist troops who are trying to put down a Soviet-armed guerrilla force...