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...psychological trauma at the gas station in 1974, and they are damned tired of appearing to be pushed around. I believe the American people have largely put Viet Nam behind them: they know what we are talking about when we speak of the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula being a vital interest...
...Arabia has viewed with much alarm the Marxist, pro-Moscow regime in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen), a government so far to the left that it considers Iraq a "fascist state." South Yemen, the Saudis believe, wants to destabilize and subvert the entire Arabian Peninsula. That gloomy view gained credibility last week as South Yemen, taking advantage of a long-simmering border dispute, launched an all-out attack on its more populous but militarily weaker northern neighbor, pro-Saudi North Yemen (The Yemen Arab Republic). A ceasefire, hastily worked out by Syria and Iraq, went...
...also His Royal Highness−honorary gentleman. Proclaiming her such was the Saudi Arabian way of solving a dilemma: women are strictly second-class citizens in one of the world's most conservative monarchies, yet great courtesy was due the first British monarch to visit their petro-peninsula. The Queen reciprocated by tailoring her trip to local custom. Royal Dressmaker Sir Norman Hartnell whipped up frocks with longer sleeves and hemlines. Hatmaker Frederick Fox tacked scarves to her hats to suggest the face veils worn by Muslim women. Prince Philip nevertheless ignored the stares of chauvinist sheiks and marched...
...hand: the old commissaris, who has arrived in the U.S. to help his sister settle her affairs after her husband's sudden death, and his young sergeant, Rinus de Gier. The commissaris' brother-in-law is only one of several people who have lived on a peninsula called Cape Orca and who died or disappeared, leaving the land a cursed place. The motive for all this is not very deep. The story would not be ten able if the local sheriff were not a very new man in the territory and his helpers foreign...
...President assured congressional leaders last summer that he would adjust his policy "should circumstances affecting the balance [on the Korean peninsula] change significantly." One factor that could affect Carter's decision is whether North and South Korea resume the negotiations that stalled in August 1973. There were indications last week that the two sides might again start talking. Another factor is that keeping the G.I.s in South Korea might be popular. A poll last year by Potomac Associates, a Washington think tank, found that by 52% to 35%, Americans favored maintaining ground forces in South Korea. There also...