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After more than two decades of practice, Yasser Arafat has become an expert in the fine art of survival. Now the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization will once again have to use all his skills to find a way through the current crisis. By refusing to condemn Iraq's conquest of Kuwait, Arafat has infuriated many of his Arab backers, alienated Western powers that had only recently begun to warm to him, and driven Israeli doves into the camps of the hawks...
...current gyrating cost of crude is the single most volatile factor in the world economy's fate. Since the Iraqi invasion, the price of oil has nearly doubled, to a spot rate of $37 per bbl. at the end of last week. America's monthly bill for imported oil has risen in proportion, to an estimated $7 billion, with the increase acting as a depressant on the economy. The price of regular unleaded gasoline has climbed 27 cents a gal., to $1.35, since early August. At these price levels, the heating-oil bill for the average Northeast homeowner could rise...
...Your Next Desert Vacation . . . Undaunted by the current tensions, the Dubai Tourism Board is starting a campaign to promote that gulf state as the next vacation hot spot. Situated 530 miles southeast of Kuwait, Dubai is where "sportsmen, sightseers and adventurers can equally feel at home," claims Khalid bin Sulayem, head of the tourist board. And, yes, Dubai is out of the range of Iraq's most powerful missiles...
...Rabbit wonders how the Dalai Lama is doing, after all that exile. Do you still believe in God, if people keep telling you you are God?" The Dalai Lama has been in the news, and Rabbit, force-feeding himself at the tube, has become through sheer couch-potatodom a current-events buff. But the Tibetan religious leader continues to interest Rabbit, who later, in the hospital after an angioplasty on his clogged arteries, tries to imagine life after his death and fails. He cannot shake the impression that his hometown "and all the world beyond are just frills on himself...
...whole, American officials contend that the coalition so far has held together remarkably well. They note, for example, that sanctions usually begin to break down rather quickly but that the current alliance has drawn the embargo against Iraq ever tighter. The job, however, is far from done. The U.S. may have to hold the coalition together for months or even years, either to wage effective war against Iraq or to contain a Saddam Hussein who would remain a menace even after a withdrawal from Kuwait. That is a job that will guarantee continuing headaches. But there is no alternative...