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Prospects for negotiated solutions are poor. President Carter started conventional arms transfer talks with the Soviets in 1977. They were abandoned the follow ing year after the Soviets demanded, and the U.S. refused, to discuss weapons sales to the Persian Gulf region. The Reagan Administration has expressed a willingness to talk with the Soviets about new strategic arms limits and theater nuclear force reduction of missiles in Europe. But there is currently little expressed desire for conventional arms-sale restraint?either by the Reagan Administration, the Soviets, the other major producers or even Third World nations. The first step toward...
...officials on closer examination declared that direct Libyan involvement seemed unlikely. But Libyan jubilation over the killing heightened U.S. perceptions of Egypt's next-door neighbor as an outlaw state and an increasingly bothersome trouble spot. Said a U.S. State Department official: "Libya is beginning to rival the Persian Gulf as the focus of strategic concern in the region. Now that Egypt, the only certain counterweight to Libya, is under a cloud, that concern can only increase...
...Soviet and pro-terrorist Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi to the west; guardian of the Sudan to the south; defender of the Suez Canal; indispensable base and staging area for any U.S. forces that might have to be rushed to the Middle East to protect the Persian Gulf oilfields...
Kuwait has justly earned a reputation for being the savviest investor among the world's oil rich. The Persian Gulf sheikdom of 1.4 million people has aggressively bought everything from a West German steel mill to a South Carolina resort community. Last week Kuwait struck its biggest, and potentially most controversial, deal yet: a $2.5 billion takeover of the Santa Fe International Corp., of Alhambra, Calif., a leading oil-drilling contractor (1980 revenues: $1.2 billion...
...starving one. So instead she started out as a fashion illustrator. Wanderlust struck in 1966, however, and she joined an airline as a reservations clerk. On trips abroad, she always stopped in London to pick up far-out fashions, and in 1968 she and Mohammed Houssein Kamali, her Persian-student husband of one year, opened a New York shop of imported clothes...