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...help pay for its 7 1/2- year-old war with fellow OPEC member Iraq, heartily endorsed the 5% solution. But Hisham Nazer, the influential Saudi Arabian minister, was cool to the proposal. His country's severing of diplomatic ties with Iran last week after years of conflict with its Persian Gulf neighbor did not help matters...
...Simpson's quick kill was the first in a daylong series of naval clashes last week between the U.S. and Iran, the most serious military action taken since the American buildup began in the Persian Gulf last July. The action came during a week in which Iran also suffered a major military setback in its 7 1/2-year war of attrition with Iraq: Iranian troops were driven from the strategic Fao Peninsula by a concerted Iraqi offensive. Meanwhile a third drama involving the gulf, the 15-day hijacking of a Kuwaiti jetliner by suspected pro-Iranian Islamic extremists, ended anticlimactically...
MANAMA, Bahrain--An Iranian speedboat shot up a Saudi Arabian-owned tanker in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, hours after President Reagan said the U.S. Navy will no longer ignore attacks on noncombatants in the Persian Gulf region...
When China was accused by the U.S. last summer of selling Iran Silkworm missiles that threatened shipping in the Persian Gulf, officials in Beijing entered the diplomatic equivalent of a consent decree. They denied having made such sales but promised to make none in the future. The same officials are saying even less about another recently disclosed missile deal: the sale to Saudi Arabia of an undisclosed number of intermediate-range CSS-2 missiles capable of reaching virtually anywhere in the Middle East, including Israel...
...Stephen Trutch, an engineer employed by Dubai's royal family, caught the country's Defense Minister watching golf on television. "Why don't we have a golf course in Dubai?" asked Trutch. He was given the go-ahead, and last week (some $10 million later) the Persian Gulf got its first grass golf course...