Saudis' Eastern Desert Feels Heat of Gulf War; Officials Fear Oil, Industry Make It a Target From: The Washington Post | Date: August 31, 1987| Author: Edward Cody | Copyright 1987 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The vast and rich expanse of desert in eastern Saudi Arabia has become the unlikely place where modern pressures building on this ancient kingdom seem to concentrate.

Although oil has been pumped from under the region's sands for half a century, Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province has been faced in recent times with the Iran-Iraq war just offshore, with a Shiite minority that took at least a glance toward Iran's version of Islam and a crash industrialization project that has forced a has...

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