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...area surrounding the Persian Gulf is vital to the industrialized democracies of the world. More than 20% of the U.S.'s oil imports, 56% of Western Europe's and 68% of Japan's come from the gulf. That lifeline is acutely vulnerable to the disruptions of war, revolution and political turmoil. The region has been beset by all three. The conservative Arab states-Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman-face threats to their security at every point of the compass: a simmering, potentially explosive war between Iran and Iraq, armored Soviet divisions...
...Algerian team under Foreign Minister Mohammed Benyahia were acting as intermediaries. The Iranians, who spoke Persian, would talk only with the Algerians, who spoke French. Any question or proposal of mine had to be translated twice as it went from Washington to Algiers to Tehran; the answers and counterproposals had to come back over the same slow route...
...agencies were alerted and available to our team around the world. Secretary of State Ed Muskie was at his desk, maintaining contact with Algiers, where Warren Christopher was conducting the fitful discussions with Benyahia. Harold Brown was In the Pentagon, arranging for services that would be needed in the Persian Gulf region and at other points along the route to freedom, which we prayed would soon be taken by the hostages. Hundreds of U.S. and other officials were waiting for the final move of the cumbersome negotiating mechanism. It crept slowly, haltingly, sometimes in reverse, and its progress, or lack...
...slowed the Japanese economy, and Mitsukoshi's profits began to slip. Top management at Mitsukoshi's associated companies in the Mitsui group eventually began to wonder if Okada could turn the store's fortunes around. The final blow came three weeks ago when experts charged that Persian treasures shown last month at the main Mitsukoshi store in Tokyo featured costly fakes. When Okada refused to accept responsibility for the hoax and resign, the store's 16 other directors convened at Mitsui's urging and voted to fire him, relegating him to the post...
Khomeini is anxious to continue his war against Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and U.S. intelligence sources expect another attack on the strategic Iraqi city of Basra, located on the Persian Gulf in the heart of Iraq's oil-producing region, within the next few weeks. But for the first time, Iranian mullahs are having difficulty recruiting volunteers to die for their cause. Complains Hojjatoleslam Rouhani, chairman of the defense committee of the Majlis: "Only some valorous and militant youths go to the fronts, and the others loaf around with no sense of responsibility." The mullahs...