Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kuwait's Arab neighbors in the multinational force have fared better. Saudi Arabia has furnished $80 million of emergency food supplies and is bidding on contracts for cement and other building materials. Egypt expects to provide much of the labor to rebuild Kuwait. Workers there before the invasion were largely Egyptians, Palestinians and Yemenites, but the last two groups supported Saddam and won't be welcome for a long time. So the 400,000 Egyptians who fled after the invasion will probably stream back, followed by many compatriots...
...from boiling over. Yet it lasted long enough to give the allies time to truncate Iraq's military, neutralizing its mischiefmaking potential for some time to come. And by forcing Saddam to swallow bitter terms for a cease- fire, the allies have stripped him of his appeal as an Arab...
Still, this good fortune is not irreversible. When it becomes plain just how badly Iraq has been mauled, Arab rage may again threaten the calm. The coalition, no longer unified by the single aim of liberating Kuwait, will lose cohesion as its members compete to realize their own visions of the future, each guided by a unique set of interests that at some points must clash. Already differences are emerging: the Soviets, for instance, want a better deal for their old client Iraq than the West does, and the Arabs and Europeans want to be tougher on Israel than...
Regional Security. The immediate focus is to prevent Iraq -- or another Iraq -- from waging war again. Everyone favors some kind of regional security apparatus, and nearly everyone agrees it should be mainly Arab. The Western allies are emphatic about extricating their troops quickly to reduce pressure on the Arab partners from citizens angry over the presence of former colonialists and infidels. But the West will continue to lend silent support to the gulf regimes, leaving equipment behind in case allied forces need to return. The longstanding U.S. naval presence in the gulf will be increased, as will joint military exercises...
...main safeguards will have to be local. To secure Kuwait, Washington's preliminary idea is to establish, at least temporarily, a demilitarized zone on the Iraq-Kuwait border. Arab forces, mainly Egyptian and Syrian, would police Kuwait's side, and U.N. peacekeeping troops would monitor the DMZ. One kink is that the border remains disputed, and an indignant Kuwait refuses to negotiate the matter with Iraq...