Word: oman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After leaving Oman at dawn, the homeward-bound group stopped in Cairo for its meeting with President Mubarak, who had succeeded the assassinated Anwar Sadat only three weeks before. Mubarak stressed his determination to rebuild relations with his estranged Arab brothers, and appealed for more U.S. investment in Egypt's troubled economy...
...monthlong joint military training exercise, code-named "Bright Star," scheduled to begin next month in Egypt. Some 4,000 U.S. troops will take part in the maneuvers, which were planned months before Sadat's death. The Sudan will join the exercise, and Washington is trying to persuade Oman and Somalia to participate...
...Arab side, the reactions were even more disparate. A few states were stunned?Morocco, Oman, and the Sudan, which had been Sadat's closest ally and, like Egypt, had suffered from Libya's belligerency. But in Libya, happy flag-waving crowds shouted their approval. In Lebanon, Palestinian commandos danced in the streets as if celebrating a victory. "We shake the hand that pulled the trigger," said one fedayeen commander. Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, who was in Peking, declared: "What we are witnessing is the beginning of the failure of the Camp David agreement with the fall...
...Reagan Administration is trying to get around the transport shortage by negotiating rights to preposition supplies in Somalia, Kenya and Oman so that the R.D.F. could pick them up on its way into the Persian Gulf region. The Administration also hopes to talk a friendly nation, perhaps Egypt or Oman, into supplying a permanent base for R.D.F. units. That will be far from easy and may be politically hazardous. Providing the R.D.F. with a base might brand a friendly government as a U.S. puppet in the eyes of its neighbors?and its own people. President Anwar Sadat, the closest...
...Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates...