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...after reporting on the American evacuation of Saigon in 1975. His assignment: to determine whether the campaign justified Washington's growing concern about Marcos' leadership. Stewart followed the President's campaign on the islands of Bohol and Negros in monsoon rains. Hillenbrand, who is based in Bahrain on the Persian Gulf, endured bone-jarring rides on motorcycles and military trucks while keeping up with Aquino and Laurel on campaign stops across the 115,830-sq.-mi. archipelago...
...largest U.S. military installations in any foreign country. With 18,000 men and women on active duty, they manifest the determination of the U.S. to maintain its power in the economically fastest-growing region in the world. Militarily, they project U.S. might all the way to the Persian Gulf and safeguard the sea-lanes through which 80% of the West's strategic raw materials pass...
...fragmentation of the P.L.O. in the wake of its 1982 expulsion from Lebanon may help explain the increased violence. Now dispersed from North Africa to the Persian Gulf, the P.L.O.'s young guerrillas are becoming bored after three years of relative inactivity. Says a P.L.O. expert in Tunis: "Launching a raid against Israel, however dangerous, is better than sitting around in a camp in North Yemen...
Safran also said Wednesday that he accepted CIA funding for a conference last year on the Persian Gulf. But last night, Safran reversed himself, denying in an interview his initial statements and saying that the Persian Gulf conference was not funded with CIA money. He would not say where money for that conference came from...
Elsewhere, the value of marriage may be incalculable, but in the United Arab Emirates, men feel that it is not worth $50,000. Women often demand sums of that size in the Emirates, where dowries are supplied by grooms rather than by brides. Young women in this Persian Gulf federation of sheikdoms view the dowry as an insurance policy. Because Islamic law allows men to take up to four wives and obtain divorces easily, brides believe they risk losing their husbands' affection...