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...Reagan Administration is trying to get around the transport shortage by negotiating rights to preposition supplies in Somalia, Kenya and Oman so that the R.D.F. could pick them up on its way into the Persian Gulf region. The Administration also hopes to talk a friendly nation, perhaps Egypt or Oman, into supplying a permanent base for R.D.F. units. That will be far from easy and may be politically hazardous. Providing the R.D.F. with a base might brand a friendly government as a U.S. puppet in the eyes of its neighbors?and its own people. President Anwar Sadat, the closest...
...port by a shortage of sailors to crew them. U.S. Army units in Europe, by some estimates, would run out of ammunition after only two weeks of conventional war. Worst of all, perhaps, the U.S. has an announced commitment to oppose by force any Soviet move toward the Persian Gulf oilfields, but today might have to resort to tactical nuclear weapons to block such a thrust...
...chromium needed for jet engines comes from Zimbabwe or South Africa; 90% of the cobalt vital to mining and machine tools is imported, mostly from Zaire. All are vulnerable to Soviet troublemaking or internal difficulties that could shut off supplies. The most serious threat is to the Persian Gulf oilfields, which supply 40% of the free world's imported petroleum. When the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan raised fears of a move by the U.S.S.R. toward the gulf, Carter announced plans to create a force that could quickly be dispatched to trouble spots halfway around the globe...
...Orient Handel, a store in San Francisco, accumulated a stock of Persian rugs worth $1.2 million to meet strong customer demand. But many of the rugs remain unsold. Says Manager Albert Neherayoff: "Three years ago we used to sell a minimum of $40,000 in rugs each month. That's gone down to $20,000 or $15,000 -or even less. I'm praying that business picks...
Symphony of Psalms-danced to Stravinsky's score of the same name against a huge backdrop of Persian rugs-was inspired by a boyhood memory. "There was a Russian Orthodox church in Prague that was always closed," recalls Kylian, "but we could peek through a hole in the door and see that it was full of red rugs and religious flags." That image stayed with him when he was working on the piece, immersing himself in Stravinsky, who was deeply influenced by Russian Orthodoxy at the time he wrote the music...