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...many Iranians, had been trained in the U.S.; he still wore a breast patch from Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas. The Iranians have also worked something of a miracle with the sophisticated American weaponry with which the Shah had built the most feared arsenal in the Persian Gulf. Despite a lack of spare parts, F-4 Phantoms can be seen refueling in midair, and F-5 fighters take off on sorties fully armed with bombs and missiles...
...Milan apartment, on a dead-end street only a short walk from his office in Palazzo Durini, is a sort of luxury-class version of a Japanese monk's cell. He shares the seven rooms with a gray Persian cat named Micio. Except for Micio and a Japanese screen, practically everything in the living area was designed by Armani himself, who is mulling over the addition of furniture to his assorted ventures. Certainly the low couches and chairs here, all covered with satinized cotton, and the sculpted rectangular table in a favorite Armani shade of taupe, represent a strong...
Iran's continuing military advances have caused increasing concern in the U.S. and in neighboring Arab states. Any significant redistribution of power in this geopolitically sensitive area could bring disruption in the flow of oil supplies from the Persian Gulf. It could also offer the Soviet Union greater scope for extending its influence in the region...
...Force should get both of the new strategic bombers it wants. Under Jones' plan the Chairman would also be in charge of overall strategic planning. Currently, such questions as, for example, what kind of military presence the U.S. should maintain in the Indian Ocean as against the Persian Gulf are thrashed out among all the Chiefs...
...million to 8 million bbl. a day, could cut back production sharply enough to tighten the world market without doing grave damage to its own internal economy. Though Saudi Petroleum Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani has been purposefully vague about his country's plans, reports out of the Persian Guff banking center of Bahrain last week suggested that the desert kingdom may be preparing to trim production at least somewhat this spring...