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...hopes that Bulliet has an extremely active imagination. If not, if the book's plot has some basis in fact, then the machinations of national intelligence communities pose a serious threat to the precariously perched Persian Gulf regimes. Indeed, Bulliet says in the book's jacket notes, "At the present time, the likelihood of a major crisis developing in the Gulf region is very high...
...Place Commercial Here" between chapters. In other words, Bulliet makes no grand assumptions about his readers' intelligence. There's even a map--a simplified one at that--of the Middle East on the flyleaf, for those readers who just can't keep all those Arabian nations straight (though the Persian Gulf itself is confusingly labeled Bahrain...
...proposal. But the concern the letter indicated was real. Said Cheysson last week: "If one accepts it [mining] in one part of the world, there is no reason not to accept it in the Strait of Hormuz as well." He was referring to the waterway through which most Persian Gulf oil bound for the West passes. Iran has threatened to mine the strait as part of its war against Iraq; Reagan has pledged to keep the passage open by any means necessary...
...under a Communist regime or, more likely, splitting apart into warring fiefs, the U.S. would be confronted by a teeming enemy (pop. 75 million) along its 2,000-mile, currently undefended border. The U.S. would have to divert troops now faced off against the Soviets from Berlin to the Persian Gulf to the western Pacific. The Soviets, of course, would like nothing better than to have the U.S. saddled with the Western Hemisphere equivalent of the U.S.S.R.'s own hostile neighbor, China. Refugees by the hundreds of thousands would pour over U.S. borders, competing with Americans for jobs...
...President Saddam Hussein has been threatening to use the sophisticated weaponry to stop Iran from exporting oil from its Kharg Island terminal. That threat roused international concern. If Saddam Hussein proved as bad as his word, the war between Iraq and Iran might extend to other parts of the Persian Gulf and affect oil shipments of such Iraqi neighbors and benefactors as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Last week those fears came closer to facts. Baghdad sent the French planes into action, striking two ships. As it happened, neither was carrying Iranian oil, and both were under contract to Kuwaiti...