Word: alie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organized and subsidized Lebanon's Hizballah, had already been leaning westward, however grudgingly. President Hashemi Rafsanjani wants increased trade, especially from Europe, to help rebuild an economy destroyed by eight years of war with Iraq. By turning away from radicals abroad, he can also undercut his extremist domestic rival, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, Hizballah's godfather...
Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, meanwhile, had his own reasons for promoting the release of Western hostages. The pragmatic Rafsanjani regards the hostages as relics of an era no longer relevant to his country's problems. Iran, which wields much more influence than Hizballah, desperately needs Western credits, trade and technology to rebuild after its devastating eight-year war with Iraq, which ended in 1988. Rafsanjani, who knows improved relations with the West hinge on the happy resolution of the hostage drama, undoubtedly ordered or at least pressed for the release of McCarthy and Tracy. He may also have...
...understand?" wonders Ali al-Khalifa al-Sabah, a former Kuwaiti finance minister. "We were the most vocal supporters of the P.L.O., and we gave plenty, more than $60 million in the past six years alone. And that doesn't count the 5% of Palestinian salaries we deducted for direct transmittal to Yasser Arafat. Who would not feel betrayed...
Jobless, stateless, without access to Kuwait's welfare system and with rent and other bills to pay, "how are those of us without protected employment to live?" asks Ali of the Plaza Hotel. "Obviously we are being forced to leave." But even leaving is difficult. Approximately 30,000 Palestinians hold Egyptian travel documents, but Cairo is less than eager to take them. Jordan is the only available haven, but Saudi Arabia has refused overland transit to Amman, Iraq has allowed it only sporadically, and the only other way out, by air, is costly. The result is a general milling about...
...members of the ruling family actively aiding the Palestinians is Ali Salem al-Sabah, the resistance leader who left his doctoral studies in California to return to Kuwait after Iraq's invasion. With the help of his father, the commander of Kuwait's national guard, Salem has moved 800 jailed Palestinians into Kuwait's juvenile prison. "Life is better for them at what we call Ali's prison," says Salman al-Sabah, the head of Kuwait's state security service. "Ali has spent thousands of dollars of his own money for ! mattresses and linens and to have food catered...