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...area. The U.S. earlier this year negotiated agreements for access to military facilities in Kenya, Somalia and Oman; it also has close ties with Egypt and is building up its Indian Ocean fleet. That network is intended to counter the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and South Yemen. Now U.S. military planners may have to reckon with Moscow's closer Syrian connection as well...
...waters of the gulf itself, a Soviet guided-missile cruiser and its frigate escort have replaced the Shah's navy in patrolling the shipping channel through the 40-mile-wide Strait of Hormuz. The U.S.S.R. now maintains 85,000 troops in Afghanistan and has military advisers in South Yemen and Ethiopia, while a fleet of ten Soviet warships and 16 support vessels cruises the Indian Ocean...
...gold) in the basement of his palace. Finally, his Sandhurst-educated son, Qaboos, then 29, staged a palace coup and set about bringing the country into the 20th century. Today Oman boasts 375 schools and 14 modern hospitals. A rebellion in the Dhofar region, fanned by Marxist South Yemen, has been snuffed out as Oman, gatekeeper of the Strait of Hormuz, has built up its military forces. Oman has no large Palestinian presence; Qaboos' top advisers and military commanders are British-two factors that may help explain Oman's special relationship with...
...neighbors, Iraq and Jordan, and is desperately short of cash, so a union with Libya might conceivably work to its benefit. But such merger proposals, offered in the name of the "Arab nation," have a notoriously poor track record. An Egypt-Syria merger fell apart in 1961. An Egypt-Yemen union dissolved the same year. A proposed Libya-Egypt federation was stillborn in 1973. Thus the latest proposal was greeted with skepticism on almost all sides. Anwar Sadat denounced it as "funny and childish," and added scathingly: "The destiny of the Arab nation is placed in the hands of children...
...Harvard researchers are producing the knowledge that may someday be a noxious gas that will spread over the plains of Yemen and kill 25 or 30,000 people. And though you can't see them--they hide on Huntington Avenue at the Med School or behind the great rhinoceri that guard the Bio Labs--they are doing it. And we know they are because they did it in Vietnam, when they told the President that the war could be won and then suggested that he use napalm to do it. Two Harvard men, one of them who may teach...