Word: oman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates...
...began, last week, the grand finale of Operation Bright Star, a 45-day complex series of exercises involving 6,000 U.S. military personnel who worked with the armed forces of Egypt, Sudan, Somalia and Oman. The aim of the maneuvers: to test the slowly evolving ability of the U.S. to carry out the vows of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan to help the states in the oil-rich Persian Gulf area resist a Soviet-launched invasion...
...Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates...
...Middle East, and Arab gulf state potentates met in Riyadh to discuss security arrangements, the U.S. was taking action of quite a different kind last week to buttress the region. The effort involved a long-planned sequence of military exercises in four friendly countries-Egypt, Sudan, Somalia and Oman-occurring over a month's time and involving some 6,000 U.S. personnel. Code-named Bright Star '82, the maneuvers are the biggest trial run yet for the still nebulous U.S. Rapid Deployment Force, which is eventually supposed to have 200,000 troops at the ready to be launched...
...protector of their oil wells, most of the moderate gulf states were concerned that the military maneuver would be exploited by Arab radicals to increase political instability. The states also viewed the maneuvers as an escalation of superpower involvement in the region, one that could trigger a Soviet response. Oman did agree to take part in the exercise, but only after asking that the U.S. Marine operations be scaled down from 2,000 troops...