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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the oil money started accumulating seriously in the early 1950s, the Sabahs concocted a sophisticated scheme for distributing the windfall. Kuwait City, where 80% of the population still lives (or lived before August), was a town of mud huts. The Emir set about building a modern metropolis, a place not unlike Houston, with its skyscraper business center surrounded by villa-style suburbs. In Kuwait, too, each "suburb" became a self-contained microcosm of a city. The neighborhoods were established as cooperatives. Each had its own supermarkets, schools, medical centers and municipal services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Still, an interesting anomaly existed. Even before the invasion -- which has naturally caused Kuwaitis to unite behind their leaders -- most of those depressed by Kuwait's democratic failings supported the Emir and Kuwait's system of government. Part of the reason is simple. To a Western eye, the list of authoritarian transgressions is chilling, but to those who live in the Middle East, Kuwait was something of a model of political openness. "The fact is that we could criticize everything, even the Emir, without fear of reprisal," says Abdulatif al-Tourah, a KPC employee. "If you spoke out as freely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...Kuwait ever comes to exist, the complaints about a lack of democracy may be moot. The Emir has promised to restore the parliament and increase political freedoms in general. No one claims to have spoken to a Kuwaiti who doubts that pledge. "After liberation," says Professor Ibrahim, the Egyptian sociologist, "I foresee Kuwait as an ever more democratic state -- and for that alone it is worth fighting for. But more, you would be fighting for all the principles that the people in the Arab world aspire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Negotiation could do the trick, but what would Saddam give up, and what would he demand in return? Bush has ruled out a territorial compromise -- the Kuwaiti islands Iraq covets, for example -- and he repeated that stance to the exiled Kuwaiti Emir in a phone call shortly after his press conference. But the Kuwaitis themselves had been willing to discuss leasing some territory to Iraq before the Aug. 2 invasion. Such a deal might still be possible if, say, Saddam were willing to downsize his military and destroy his weapons of mass destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadline: Jan. 15 | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...could be overridden, a simple trade of the kind implied by Sultan's statement would probably be insufficient for the reason CIA Director Webster stated: Saddam's weapons. "We are ready for a long-term U.S. or U.N. presence in our country," says a Kuwaiti aide to the exiled Emir, "but we wouldn't deal on the islands or the oil unless Iraq's war- fighting capacities are crippled. If Saddam gets something from us that he can portray as a victory, then the rest of the world is entitled to an even greater and longer-lasting victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Wait a Minute | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

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