Word: shatt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This international assemblage, which will sail under the United Nations flag, will have its hands full. The crew will have to be alert as the Tigris is towed down the Shatt al Arab, the narrow river that flows from the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Then they will sail into the Persian Gulf and through the tricky Strait of Hormuz before they try crossing the Arabian Sea to the shores of Africa or India. These waters, surrounded by oil-rich nations, are crisscrossed daily by huge supertankers that could miss the reed boat's small kerosene running...
Refugees. Saddam Hussein apparently got the best of the brotherly arrangement. Iran and Iraq agreed to begin negotiations this week in Tehran that will revise-in Iran's favor-long-disputed land and water boundaries, notably along the river known as the Shatt al-Arab. The two countries also agreed that they would no longer help "provocative elements," a scarcely disguised reference to the Kurdish dissidents who, with Iran's backing, have fought the Baghdad government for 17 years...
...Tunb and Abu Musa, which-despite their comic-opera names-guard the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which 120 tankers a day carry a little more than half the oil consumed by the non-Communist world. Iran earlier had abrogated a treaty granting equal navigational rights to the crucial Shatt al-Arab, a confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates that leads to the gulf. Iraq feared that Iran was attempting to cut off its oil routes from Khor al-Amaya, Iraq's principal oil terminal at the top of the gulf. Iraq broke off diplomatic relations with Iran...