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Because the Plaza's owner, Hamad al-Towaijri, is a prominent businessman, Khalid's and Ali's jobs are secure, and they will probably remain in Kuwait. They are among the very few lucky Palestinians. "If you can call it lucky," says Ali. "Even with Hamad giving us work, daily life is hard. People who talk nicely to me turn harsh when they find out I'm Palestinian. My Kuwaiti friends say I shouldn't visit because they will be branded Palestinian lovers. And God help me if I get into a traffic accident with a Kuwaiti, even...
...foreigners doing business in Kuwait must deal through Kuwaiti agents, and the trials of PVE, a California-based environmental company, are illustrative. A Saudi businessman familiar with PVE invited the concern to bid for the monumental job of cleaning up Kuwait's oil fields. The final count of blown wells, not yet officially released, is 732 out of a total of 1,000. At least 248 well fires have been doused, but the hardest to cap, the high- pressure wells, have yet to be seriously tackled. In the meantime, giant lakes of oil have formed, covering an estimated 1 million...
...port of Assab, which normally handles 70% of Ethiopia's trade, about the only thing now moving through it is food. A Shell Oil installation, which is under the front's control, is sending only 10% of the usual fuel supply to the rest of Ethiopia. Says a Western businessman at the port: "There is the definite feeling of a squeeze play here." Wary of the Eritreans, Ethiopian producers of coffee, the country's biggest export, are not sending their goods to Assab...
...Colombia, they are not universally admired. Some intellectuals protest that if the drug mafia's economic power is accepted, its values will eventually be countenanced as well. Critics are especially wary of the dynastic ambitions of the high-profile Rodriguez family. "They invest in the future," says a Bogota businessman. "They are thinking of the next generation, and the one after that...
...mother. Rachel Lawton lies compulsively and attempts to control every aspect of her child's life. She makes toilet training a battleground, then becomes an increasingly jealous and violent competitor as Carla matures sexually. Democrats eager for political revelations will be disappointed. Throughout the misadventures, Daddy, a bicoastal businessman, is malleable and remote as he floats through years of Teflon fatherhood...