Word: oman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration has begun to redress the Soviet-American military balance in the region. The U.S. has negotiated agreements with Somalia, Kenya and Oman for access to their ports and airfields in a crisis. Borrowing vessels from its Mediterranean and Pacific fleets, the U.S. Navy has stationed two nuclear-armed aircraft carrier groups in the Indian Ocean and a five-vessel task force in the area of the gulf itself. In March the Pentagon announced the creation of the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, a reservoir of more than 200,000 troops from which the President could draw an instant expeditionary...
...miles, from the Shatt-al-Arab in Iraq to the Musandam peninsula in Oman, a shallow, aquamarine trough of water glistens under the brutal sun-the Persian, or Arabian Gulf, depending on the side of the water on which one stands. On either shore, the Arabian and Iranian plateaus form some of the most uninviting landscape anywhere: endless vistas of desert and rock, so desolate that in one stretch in Saudi Arabia it is known as Rub'al Khali-the Empty Quarter...
...restaurants and manage hotels-a large and disquieting foreign presence. Educated Egyptians and Palestinians occupy key professional posts, even serving as top advisers to heads of state. The Palestinian diaspora, estimated to be 400,000 through the gulf, has been the major factor in the gulf states' refusal-Oman is the exception-to support the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Brief Baedekers on the Arab gulf nations...
...Vietnamese troops occupied along that border. Hua backed U.S. efforts to get the Soviets out of Afghanistan and promised Carter that the Chinese would not question U.S. moves in the Middle East. He expressed "very, very strong" support for American efforts to acquire military bases in Kenya, Oman and Somalia as a counterweight to Soviet influence in the Persian Gulf region...
Disbanded after World War II, the S.A.S. was revived in 1952 to fight Communist insurgents in Malaya. In Oman, the unit helped the Sultan repulse Saudi-backed rebels and Marxist insurgents. Gradually, the S.A.S. has focused on combatting terrorism. In Northern Ireland, where S.A.S. men have been posted since 1976, the unit is credited with halving the rate at which British servicemen were murdered by I.R.A. gunmen. One reason for the S.A.S.'s success has been its fearsome psychological impact on terrorists in South Armagh. So great is the S.A.S. reputation that European governments have often called upon...