Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Every scenario in the unpredictable conflict seems to confront them with a different tangle of crossed purposes and confused allegiances. Conservative monarchies like Saudi Arabia have found themselves on the side of what has been a radical revolutionary regime in Baghdad. On the other hand, militant governments like those of Syria and Libya lean toward once despised Iran. "The Arab world is frustrated and troubled," said one U.S. intelligence analyst. "The moderate states especially see threats all around them...
...major role at a peace conference called to end the war Says one well-informed analyst: "If the Soviet Union can worm its way in as guarantor of a steady oil flow, it has taken a gigantic strategic leap forward. It's a worst-case scenario that is by no means inconceivable...
Suddenly the nightmare, the conflict that had only been discussed as a worst-case scenario, was at hand-war amid the oilfields and across the vital oil routes of the Persian Gulf. Day after day last week, Iraqi pilots flying Soviet-built MiGs headed eastward for bombing raids on military targets and oil facilities across the Iranian border, including the Tigris-Euphrates estuary known as Shatt al Arab. Caught by surprise at first, the Iranians responded with attacks of their own, sending American-made Phantom F-4 fighter-bombers against Iraqi cities and installations. A fearful battle was under...
When MR&A checked with Department of Energy officials in Washington, it found that no one ever mentioned such a doomsday scenario. Apparently, the Energy Department had not made contingency plans for a total oil cutoff. MR&A would find it difficult to model a catastrophe...
IMAGINE the following scenario--Act 1: The press reveals that President Carter and two of his first cousins accepted an unknown quantity of diamonds from a blood-lustful, third-world tyrant; that Rosalynn Carter uses privileged White House information to turn a profit on the stock market; that Carter's closest adviser may have had foreknowledge of the murder of a noted political figure. Act II: No congressional inquiry of the President takes place. Instead, Carter wins a second term in a landslide victory...