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a) before Pamela's death the punishment for carjacking was the same all over the U.S.A
b) the president was forced by the public not to rarity the resolution to change the
criminal act
c) Pamela was killed in the latest of the, carjacking attempts that have occurred recently
d) it was such a new deterrent law that car protection equipment was no longer selling well
While the 1970s had demonstrated the
importance of the Gulf region, the 1980s provided
evidence of its fragility. In September 1980 Iraq launched an offensive
into Iran that turned into
a bloody eight-year of attrition. The war left hundreds of thousands dead, disrupted vital oil
tanker traffic in the Gulf, and led to U.S. intervention in the form of
naval escorts for Kuwaiti
oil tankers. Meanwhile the economies of
the Gulf states, all of which depend to some degree on
oil, were devastated by the crash of oil prices in the mid-1980s. Plummeting oil revenues forced
the Gulf states to cut back severely on domestic development projects and services.
7. Owing to the sudden steep reduction in the income from oil in the mid-1980s,
a) the gulf states developed economically.
b) Kuwaiti oil tankers were escorted by the U.S. ones for protection.
c) oil prices were also on the decrease.
d) the economies of the Gulf states retrogressed seriously.
8. Any destabilisation of the Gulf region brings about global problems as
a) before Pamela's death the punishment for carjacking was the same all over the U.S.A.
a) the bloodiest wars which involved many nations have occurred here.
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