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Eventually, Saudi Arabia and the equally feudal emirates, sheikdoms and sultanates of the gulf (Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates -- and Kuwait, if Saddam Hussein lets go) will also have to share more of their oil riches with the poorer Arab states, through investment and development aid. The bitter resentment of their wealth and isolation, fanned but not originated by Saddam Hussein, has come as a salutary shock to their rulers. Some may be realizing too that it is unhealthy for as much as 60% of their populations to be composed of foreign workers (Palestinians, Pakistanis, Egyptians, Filipinos...
...household appliances is not pressing. As the shortage of spare parts becomes acute, water and power supplies will only gradually begin to decline. "There ^ is scope for flexibility on Iraq's part for making do in a self-contained economy," says Marshall Wiley, a former U.S. ambassador to Oman...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Claiborne Pell has formally asked the Pentagon to send over copies of any exchanges of letters or oral agreements with gulf governments. That includes not only Saudi Arabia and Kuwait but also Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, all of which have agreed to base U.S. warplanes on their soil...
...military thrust from Iraq. As Operation Desert Shield, which features the largest airlift in history, continued, the day when the U.S. and allied forces would have sufficient strength to conduct offensive operations against Iraq was rapidly approaching, especially since Defense Secretary Dick Cheney has persuaded other gulf countries like Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to provide logistical facilities. In less than two weeks, the U.S. has sent nearly 100,000 troops and a billion pounds of supplies, the equivalent, Pentagon officials boasted, of moving a community the size of Jefferson City, Mo. Despite all this, it could still...
During the 1987-88 November through March season, 900 tourists came to Oman. This season an estimated 6,000 have visited. (Tourism virtually ceases from April to October, when temperatures routinely exceed 100 degrees F.) Nearly three-fourths of Oman's tourists are Swiss, with the remainder divided among Germans, Belgians, French and other Europeans. For Japanese and American travelers, the sultanate still awaits discovery -- a consequence of lack of promotion, long-distance travel and substantial expense. The preponderance of Swiss largely reflects the promotion of Oman as a holiday mecca by Kuoni Travel, a Zurich-based agency that flies...