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Today the same people incarnate modern Arab lore emerging from the magic elixir of oil. The oil price boom in 1973 began barely two years after seven gulf emirates-Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qaiwain, Ras al Khaimah and Fujairah-set aside tribal quarrels to form a loose federation. The cornucopia of oil money has yielded perhaps the highest per capita income in the world for Emirates citizens (in excess of $100,000 a year) and created a cradle-to-grave welfare state. But the Emirates face the most serious population imbalance in the region: of a population...
...alarm of capitals around the Middle East, an air battle erupted in the border area between Iraqi helicopter gunships and several Iranian Phantom jets and helicopters. There were also reports of increased military activity at Iraq's two main naval bases: Basra, on the Shatt al Arab, and Umm Qasr, at the northern tip of the Persian Gulf. Since more than 50% of the West's oil supplies originate in the gulf area, this confrontation was a new worry for the U.S. and its allies...
...Umm Jihad, 37, is a member of the Palestine National Congress and head of the General Union of Palestinian Women, an organization with approximately 100,000 members that supports many of the P.L.O.'s programs in health and education. She also directs the P.L.O.'s multimillion-dollar assistance program for families of Palestinians killed or captured in various conflicts. An ardent nationalist even as a young girl in Gaza, she became the first woman to join Al Fatah at the age of 16. The struggle to preserve a Palestinian identity was so strong at that time, she says...
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Privately, Egyptian spokesmen conceded that there was a serious political purpose behind the armored assaults along the border and the series of preemptive bombing strikes at airbases and radar installations. The Egyptians hit Libyan airfields at Al Adem, near Tobruk, Al Kufra and Umm Alayan, as well as a training camp for African "volunteers" near Al Jaghbub, which was attacked by helicopter-borne commandos. According to Egyptian intelligence, reports TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, Gaddafi-in cooperation with Ethiopia and with Soviet support -planned to launch attacks on moderate governments all across northeast Africa...