Word: persianism
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...miss the opportunity? Ever since the 1920s, oil-shale pilot plants have been opening and closing in Colorado, reflecting the Federal Government's failure to develop a consistent energy policy. But in 1980, at long last, shale seemed poised for takeoff. Two traumatic Persian Gulf oil crises in the 1970s had sent oil prices zooming and had given rise to high hopes in Washington and the oil industry that shale would develop into a synthetic-fuel industry. To encourage domestic production, Congress enacted the synfuels tax credit and also created the Synthetic Fuels Corp. As envisioned by President Jimmy Carter...
...great threat today is not Soviet attack but radical Arab-Islamic terrorism and instability in that part of the world. Hence the redeployment of American forces from the plains of Europe, Korea, perhaps next Japan, to the battleground of today: the Horn of Africa, Central Asia, the Persian Gulf...
First Sergeant Christopher Coffin knew how to stay close to his wife Betsy even when he was far away. Before he left in February, bound for the Persian Gulf, he took her outside on a cold, clear Maine night, pointed to an especially bright star and told her he would be able to see it from Iraq. They could both look at it, and find each other. "Every night when I walked the dog," Betsy says, "I would stop and talk to the star. The dog was so confused; she could tell I was talking to Chris, but she couldn...
...right, were posted to Fort Polk, La., which meant that he would see a lot less of Jayden. Then in April of this year, Small was shipped off to Iraq. He was proud to serve his country and received word that he might be promoted while in the Persian Gulf. On July 3, he died from a gunshot in a noncombat incident that the Army says is under investigation. The East Berlin post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has helped set up a trust fund for Jayden, and donations are pouring in. --Reported by Amanda Bower...
...hour passed, a small insurrection took hold at the end of the queue. Former Extension School student Heidi Erickson—who gained public notoriety in May when 72 dead Persian cats were discovered in the refrigerators of her two local homes—arrived half an hour late, and the Wordsworth representatives had run out of admission tickets...