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...heard. Since Saddam became President in 1979, he has maintained his popularity by rapidly improving housing, roads, medical care, and other amenities. These have largely been paid for by Iraq's oil revenues, which reached $21.2 billion in 1979. But Iran's naval dominance in the Persian Gulf and the decision by Syria, which supports Iran, to close one of Iraq's pipelines to the Mediterranean, have cut exports to only 650,000 bbl. per day, down from 3.5 million...
...fended off Khomeini's appeals to Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims, who make up 55% of the population, to rise against the Sunni-dominated regime. To counter the appeal of religious confraternity with Iran's Shi'ites, Saddam Hussein has exploited traditional Arab-Persian enmity. But he realizes that Iraqis are sick of war. "We have tried all means, we have knocked on all the doors [to try to end the fighting]," he said last week. Iraq has repeatedly stated that it was willing to negotiate a peace treaty with Iran. The chief obstacle, however...
...currency revenues from the pipeline right back into Western economies for the purchase of grain and high technology. The pipeline technology itself will help the Soviets produce for themselves Siberian gas they otherwise could not get at for a few years, hence making energy hunting in the Persian gulf less of a necessity...
James Axton, American and middleaged, serves this conflicted arena. He is a member of a subculture, "business people in transit, growing old in planes and airports." His job: risk analysis of the executives in multinational corporations. But how does one determine the actuarial odds in the Persian Gulf? What is the revolution quotient in Bahrain, the kidnap potential of Beirut? Like expatriates before him, Axton, recently separated from his wife and son, oscillates between the thrill of exotica and the lost comforts of home. One of the Athens-based corporate transients with whom Axton spends ouzo-drenched evenings finds Americans...
...shared animosity toward the Soviet Union. For the past decade, the China factor has been a critical equalizer in the world balance of power. The Chinese People's Liberation Army ties down 49 Soviet divisions, some of which might otherwise be redeployed westward to threaten Europe or the Persian Gulf. Western calculations about the future have been haunted by the fear that...