Word: oman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prohibits any future arms sales to South Africa, and severely curtails cultural, athletic, scientific, and other ties with Pretoria, while Italy and Great Britian continue selling tanks, armored vehicles and missiles to South Africa. Moreover, South Africa receives almost half its crude oil from Saudia Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Egypt, and Iran. Recent allegations of Israeli-South African nuclear ties have been stifled by the October 27 State Department declaration that the U.S. has "no indication of U.S. missile technology transfers from Israel to South Africa...
...Secretary-General of the Yemen Socialist Party Ali Salem al Beedh, a Politburo member who was wounded in the abortive coup. He is pressing a drive initiated last year to improve South Yemen's long-troubled relations with its neighbors. He wants to end ruptures with Oman and Saudi Arabia, and especially to advance on-again off-again efforts to merge with North Yemen. Al Beedh is planning an early resumption of relations with the U.S., broken...
...from Iran. Since Ashland had depended on Iran for 25% of its crude supplies, the firm scrambled to find alternative sources. In so doing, the jury ruled, Ashland resorted to bribery: in 1980 and 1981, according to court records, the company paid $49 million to government officials in Oman and Saudi Arabia and a government representative in Abu Dhabi to obtain oil. Ashland attorneys had argued that the payments were legal and were made to private consultants...
...first time in the history of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries that the group has met officially with ministers from nonmember states, in this case Angola, China, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico, Malaysia and Oman. As the oil czars gathered, the petroleum industry watched and wondered: Was a new, super-OPEC forming? Just the prospect of the meeting had sent the price of West Texas intermediate, the benchmark U.S. crude, rising more than $3.50 per bbl. during the previous two months, to a peak of almost $19 before the gathering. But after conferring for six days last week, the ministers were...
...Iowa indeed? It is fine for David Oman, the co-chairman of the state Republican Party, to claim, "Iowa is a good place to start. This is mid- America, and most of us live in small towns. The state is very open, clean and fair. There are no political-machine bosses to dominate the debate, and we are very much a two-party state with a level playing field." All true, and these high-minded attributes taken by themselves would be enough to make Iowa the Miss Congeniality of presidential politics. But Midwestern hospitality, admirable as it may be, does...