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...members of the Gulf Co-operation Council: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman...
Nevertheless, the decline is having an impact. In Qatar (pop. 260,000), government ministries have been asked to trim their payrolls by an average of 20%. In the United Arab Emirates (pop. 790,000), officials are considering a reduction of as much as 22% in state employment. That would mean a loss of some 10,000 positions...
...poor, belong to the Shi'ite branch of Islam. Bahrain thus is an inviting target for an Islamic revolution imported from Iran, where the Shi'ites are dominant. The island in fact was part of Persia until Sheik Isa's ancestors, who came from Qatar, drove out the Persians in 1783. Since the revolution that brought Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to power, Iran has stepped up its claims to Bahrain. In 1979 a prominent ayatullah loudly proclaimed that Bahrain was Iran's 14th province. In 1981 the government foiled a plot to assassinate Sheik...
...owes at least $5 billion to the governments of France, Yugoslavia, South Korea and Rumania for arms purchases and construction projects, and hundreds of millions more to banks and private companies in Western Europe. Iraq has also refused to pay bills due to companies in such gulf states as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on the ground that the governments of those countries have not honored their pledges to help Iraq's war effort...
...gulf is a fertile breeding ground for jumbo shrimp and more than 200 kinds of fish, including tuna and sea bass. Although the extent of damage to marine life is not yet known, dead fish are already washing ashore in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Some officials fear that the contamination may destroy a year's catch of some varieties...