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...Will the Gulf Explode?" The answer is no. As hot as the situation may be around the Persian Gulf [Oct. 27], it is not going to explode because there is still a good amount of wisdom in the land of the eagle and the land of the bear...
Your cover showed the American bald eagle and the Russian bear, eyes glistening, watching the time bomb over the Persian Gulf. Is this the symbol of our current foreign policy-furnishing arms, along with the Soviets, and waiting to pick the bones of the victims...
When will the U.S. realize that it must get out of the Persian Gulf before it is dragged into a war to protect its energy interests? Now is the time to stop the demand for Middle East...
...were not the week of a U.S. presidential election, the handling of the hostage crisis would present the U.S. with enormous problems. Coming to terms with Iran and sending along military supplies, even of the nonlethal variety, could seriously complicate American relations with the conservative Arab states of the Persian Gulf that are backing Iraq in the war. Last week Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates warned that they might reduce oil production if the U.S. resumed military supplies to Iran...
...enjoyed a good harvest. But sugar in that country is now winding up as an important source of automotive fuel instead of as a sweetener on dinner tables. Brazil has embarked on a crash program to manufacture ethyl-alcohol automobile fuel from sugar cane. And last month, when the Persian Gulf war halted oil shipments from Iraq, which supplies 50% of Brazil's petroleum imports, the government slapped an emergency ban on all new sugar export contracts. The action is expected to remove at least 500,000 metric tons of the commodity from the world's 1981 supply...