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...customer through a candy-store window. Sometimes the arm can write some impressive profit figures. The Baskin-Robbins chain (whose promotion of bubble-gum ice cream means that discriminating adult coneheads write off its 2,600 shops as hangouts for eleven-year-olds) has oases in Kuwait and Qatar. But Baskin-Robbins, now owned by a European-based conglomerate, started out in California in the 1940s as a two-man operation, with Brothers-in-Law Irv Robbins and Burt Baskin scooping furiously. Another pioneer scooper is Earl Swensen, 69, who still owns his original San Francisco ice-cream parlor...
...Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates...
Bribery in that part of the world, though, can still be a complicated affair. According to a Justice Department complaint, in 1976 two U.S. businessmen, Roy Carver and R. Eugene Holley, co-owners of a tax haven oil company in the Caribbean, allegedly paid the Oil Minister of Qatar a bribe of $1.5 million for exploration rights in that country...
...Iraq for a significant portion of their imports. So far, the squeeze on most other importers has been minimal. The U.S. and 19 other member nations of the International Energy Agency hold estimated reserves equaling a 150-day supply of imports. Also, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are partly compensating for the war-induced shortfall by raising their production levels as much as 1.5 million...
Among the small gulf states, Dubai appears to be genuinely neutral, evidently because of its large Persian minority. The other United Arab Emirates, as well as Oman, Qatar and Bahrain, all root under their breath for Iraq. Despite apprehensions about Saddam Hussein's long-term military and political ambitions, they sense a more imminent threat from Iran. Bahrain in particular is nervous about Tehran, not only because the mullahs have revived ancient Iranian claims to its territory but because Bahrain's Sunni Emir rules a population over half of whom are Shi'ites...