Word: oman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elsewhere in the gulf, other thinly populated oil producers are suffering assorted woes. Kuwait, which survived a stock-market crash in 1982, faces a $1 billion budget deficit this year. Yet the idea of cutting the country's generous welfare-state outlays remains wildly unpopular. In Oman, declining oil prices will hold the economy's growth well below the whopping 14% gain achieved last year and will force the government to curtail projects in its five-year plan. Omanis are already borrowing abroad and using foreign currency reserves to finance budget shortfalls. The United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven...
...between the Marxist factions, which has both ideological and tribal overtones, is equally murky. Former President Ismail is a Moscow-line ideologue who caused endless mischief for his more conservative Arab neighbors. He was succeeded in 1980 by Muhammad, a pragmatist who sought closer ties with neighboring North Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia...
...Houston, a seemingly tireless Conwell, an oil-equipment salesman who now resides in Oman, said he had belatedly discovered that he was being criticized for his apparently pro-Shi'ite remarks. He noted reports that the White House had preferred that he not speak at Andrews base and that the President's men were relieved when Captain Testrake was asked to become the new spokesman. Once the hostages were freed, Conwell agreed, it made sense to have the captain act as spokesman...
...Amal militiamen who had taken them away from the original hijackers, and their appearance did not contradict those assertions. Three hostages were interviewed by ABC's Charles Glass at the end of lunch in what looked like a pleasant seaside cafe near Beirut. Conwell, who lives in Muscat, Oman, went so far as to assert that "many in our group have a profound sympathy for the cause" of their Amal captors, namely freedom for 745 Lebanese held in an Israeli prison...
...spokesman for the hostages seemed straight from central casting: a square-jawed, clear-eyed Texan named Allyn Conwell. An oil company executive based in Oman, Conwell was returning from a vacation in the U.S. Showing more aplomb in captivity than Cool Hand Luke, he calmly beseeched his captors and the U.S. alike to "put aside fear, anger and insult" and "let us go home...