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...gulf conflict offers the U.S. scant room for action-or optimism...
QATAR. Throughout the 4,400-sq.-mi. desert peninsula in eastern Arabia, the land does not rise higher than 360 ft. above sea level; the average annual rainfall is a scant 4 in., falling mostly in short cloudbursts in winter. Slowly, with great care, a modern state is being built. Qatar is one of the lesser oil producers in the gulf (411,000 bbl. a day), but the population is also small (250,000, of whom only 60,000 are native Qataris). The country has been found to have vast natural gas reserves, though at current prices development is considered...
Reagan's views on Taiwan got scant attention at the time of the Cleveland rally and might have gone unnoticed if campaign staffers had not thought of sending a mission to Peking as a means of showing the ticket's concern about foreign affairs. Reagan's staffers decided to send Bush, who had been a former envoy to Peking. No one on the staff had the wit or prescience to draw up a position paper to help either Bush or Reagan when tough questions about Taiwan came up on both sides of the Pacific...
Moscow has given only scant news coverage to what it euphemistically termed the Polish "work stoppages." A report by the TASS news agency stressed Gierek's warning that "action against political and public order cannot and will not be tolerated in Poland." In a revival of an old cold-war tactic, the Soviets last week resumed the jamming of Western radio broadcasts, apparently because of the wide play being given to Polish events...
Though scientific evidence to support Canfield's claims is scant, plant pamperers seem to believe them. At the 10,000 stores in six Midwestern states where Natural Seltzer is sold, sales have grown 40% since the pop-for-plants campaign began. One Glenwood, Ill., woman is so enthusiastic about Natural Seltzer that she wrote asking where she could buy the water in 55-gal. drums. The firm is considering a slightly larger-size bottle, but nothing quite that...