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Cool & Crazy has already mightily impressed the Swedes, who can be dismissive about anything Norwegian. "There is a lot of humor and a lot of love in the movie," says Monika Tunbäck-Hanson, chairwoman of the Gothenberg Film Festival jury that named Cool & Crazy last year's best Nordic film. "For city people," she adds, "it's an eye-opener to see humble people expressing their deepest thoughts so fluently. And in such a landscape...
...Muslims, the majority in the country, to overthrow the Saddam government, which is dominated by Sunnis. Iraq in turn demanded amendment of the Algiers agreement. It also insisted on the return to "Arab" sovereignty of three small strategic islands-Abu Musa, Greater and Lesser Tunb-at the Strait of Hormuz that had been occupied by the Shah's forces in 1971. Iran did not respond...
...current dispute is also territorial. Its focal point is a group of three small islands-Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb-that lie near the mouth of the Persian Gulf. These strategically placed islands have traditionally been claimed by the United Arab Emirates, but in 1971 they were seized by the Shah's forces, following Britain's military withdrawal from the gulf. Iraq has vowed to bring the islands back under Arab control, meaning Iraqi control, and on this point enjoys the support of the entire Arab world. Comments Kuwait's influential newspaper al Qabas...
Since the British pulled out of the Persian Gulf in 1971, Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has engaged in an expansionary policy aimed at filling the power vacuum. His troops have occupied the Persian Gulf islands of Greater and Lesser 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...
...historic claims to three tiny islands in the gulf that were controlled by the Trucial States. Shah Reza Pahlevi took advantage of the political changes in the area to negotiate an agreement with Sharjah in which Iran received oil-exploration rights on Abu Mesa. The other two islands, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb, were seized by helicopter-borne Iranian troops after similar negotiations with Ras al Khaima collapsed. The Union was hard put to resist such encroachment; its principal military strength consists of Abu Dhabi's 6,000-man defense force and 1,800 British-trained Trucial Oman Scouts...
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