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...spill endangers marine life as well as industrial installations along the shoreline. The gravest threat is to the huge desalination plants that Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the other arid nations depend on for their drinking water. From Saudi Arabia to the Straits of Hormuz last week, armies of workmen were ringing the shore with floating plastic booms designed to protect the plants' intake valves. Meanwhile, panicky shoppers in Qatar went on a hoarding spree, pushing the price of bottled mineral water to almost $1 a liter-more than five times the OPEC price for crude oil. Officials from Iran...
...have washed ashore thus far, but a small change in the predominantly southeasterly wind could drive the main body of the slick onto hundreds of miles of Arab coastline. Says an environmentalist in the gulf: "The slick is not going to go around looking for a home forever." In Qatar alone, the tide of oil could close down two desalination plants that now produce 37 million gal. of fresh water daily, most of the supply for the population of 250,000. Even small amounts of oil would jam the plants' delicate machinery...
News from the Middle East about the intentions of OPEC'S feuding members was confused and contradictory. Early in the week, Kuwait's government news agency reported that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates had agreed to trim $4 off their $34-per-bbl. price unless the other members of OPEC accepted new limits on their production. Two days later, the United Arab Emirates' Oil Minister denied that the four Persian Gulf nations were threatening their OPEC allies with price cuts...
...imports, 56% of Western Europe's and 68% of Japan's come from the gulf. That lifeline is acutely vulnerable to the disruptions of war, revolution and political turmoil. The region has been beset by all three. The conservative Arab states-Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman-face threats to their security at every point of the compass: a simmering, potentially explosive war between Iran and Iraq, armored Soviet divisions in Afghanistan, Soviet proxy forces in South Yemen, and the growing militancy of Islamic fundamentalists everywhere...
...unless you have a knowledge of football, it is difficult to appreciate the game. Europeans hate American football. They find it slow-paced, boring, and tedious to watch. However, even the most ignorant spectator--just off the boat from Qatar--can value the action of volleyball being performed in front...