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Nagy and his family are now settled into a comfortable home on Beacon Hill, after years of "all sorts of commuting tricks" between here and Princeton. His wife has recently finished work on her Ph.D. in Persian and Arabic literature...
...President Saddam Hussein, but the creation of an Iraqi Islamic Republic modeled on Iran's own. To moderate rulers throughout the Arab world, the threat was even more awesome: a rising wave of Islamic fundamentalism, reinforced by an Iranian victory in Iraq, that could topple Arab governments from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean...
More serious still, the pressures induced by the wars in the Middle East have drawn the U.S. and the Soviet Union into dangerously confrontational positions, for the struggles involve not only the warring armies of Islam but future control over the Persian Gulf and the largest known petroleum reserves on earth...
...Soviets, according to most Western analysts, the long-term goal is control of Middle East oil. In Afghanistan, they have built a new airfield in the corner of the country closest to the mouth of the Persian Gulf. In the Horn of Africa last week, Soviet-backed Ethiopia attacked its traditional enemy next door, Somalia, probably with the help of Cuban and East German advisers. If the Ethiopians should defeat Somalia, they and their
...half Mexican, half Lebanese, who boasts pleasantly about the celebrities who have dined at his place. Producing a huge, elaborate guest book, he points out the autographs of Candice Bergen and David Niven. Below the restaurant, a museum bar displays statuettes snatched from the sea-Phoenician, Hittite, Greek, Roman, Persian-headless, armless relics of former powers...