Word: emirs
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Despite bold and concerted action of the U.N. Security Council, a remarkable demonstration of leadership by the U.S. in marshaling forces to defend Saudi Arabia, world condemnation and economic sanctions, there are no indications that Saddam Hussein is considering a withdrawal from Kuwait or the return of the Emir's family. With oil-price increases disturbing the world economy and with patience wearing thin, the world will inevitably turn to other issues, making it difficult to increase or even sustain the present level of economic pressure. If Saddam does not yield, the forced ejection of Iraqi troops by military action...
Without the luxury of a further provocation from Iraq -- an invasion of Saudi Arabia, the killing of Western hostages or some other horror -- it may fall to the Kuwaiti Emir to request that the United Nations act militarily. The collective-security provisions embodied in the U.N. Charter's Article 51 could provide the legal fig leaf for an internationally sanctioned war against Iraq while preserving at least some element of tactical surprise...
...dispatch, Murphy described the Iraqi attack on the Emir's palace as seen from her hotel window. "Throughout the day," she wrote, "the sound of machine-gun and mortar fire echoed through the city as a dull percussion accompaniment" to the siege. A few days later, she described the captured city as being like "the eye of a storm" as the main highways "give off a low hum from the washboard-like ruts caused by the tread of heavy tanks...
...sweeping economic sanctions, but almost all troops landing in the desert to bolster the tiny Saudi army were American. The situation remained dangerously unstable. President Bush vowed not only to defend the Persian Gulf but also to force Saddam to disgorge Kuwait. Saddam formally annexed the Emir's kingdom, dropped all pretenses of a military pullout and called for a holy war to "burn the land under the feet of the aggressive invaders...
...from Iraq. A poor country, Turkey earned as much as $250 million a year in pipeline fees from Iraq, which is among its largest trading partners. Because the location of Turkey makes it a linchpin in the strategy to isolate Saddam, its worries have been taken seriously. Kuwait's Emir has offered to compensate the Turks for most if not all of their financial damages, which Ankara estimates will come to $2.5 billion annually. Because Turkey is so vulnerable to Saddam's wrath, Secretary of State James Baker traveled to Ankara to personally deliver Western assurances...