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Many of the routes converged on an area marked Omanum Emporium (the Omani Marketplace) on a map drawn by Ptolemy in the 2nd century A.D. The spot is in present-day Oman at the edge of the Empty Quarter, an appropriate designation for a trackless region infested with camel spiders, giant ticks and lethal carpet vipers. The team checked out the forbidding terrain in 1990 and began hunting in earnest last November. Just six weeks ago, says Clapp, "we were ^ within a whisker of total failure." Then the party decided to examine Ash Shisar, a water hole with ruins...
Israel was outraged, and so were many leading French politicians. When President Francois Mitterrand, on a visit to Oman, heard what had happened, he demanded and got the resignations of the three senior civil servants who were involved in admitting Habash. The head of the French Red Cross, who acted as liaison in moving Habash, resigned as an adviser to Mitterrand...
...monsoon would cause a major disaster. For instance, rains over the Ethiopian highlands supply 80% of the water that feeds the Nile. If those rains fell offshore, the tens of millions of people in that already drought-stricken region would suffer even more grievously. Parts of Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and India could be similarly affected...
Saudi Arabia and its neighbors -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates -- are the first Arab states after Egypt to agree to sit down and talk formally with Israel. That alone, says Baker, "will break at least one major taboo." A Saudi official in Washington agrees: "The camel's nose is in the tent...
...strengthening Arab societies against radicalism. The hope was that the new Kuwait would lead the way, but the royal family appears less keen about liberalization now than it did when it was courting international support from exile. For their part, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and the Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, have promised to create only consultative councils, not parliaments. The U.S. is unlikely to push democratization, knowing fundamentalists are best organized to take advantage...