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Congressman Robert Dornan, a California Republican, is avidly pushing a proposal he feels would benefit both the stricken Kuwaiti economy and the thousands of Vietnamese languishing in camps all over southeast Asia. "The Vietnamese refugees," wrote Dornan to the Emir of Kuwait, "are people in need of a country. Kuwait, on the other hand, is a country in need of / people." Dornan believes that Kuwait's labor pool should not be replenished by Palestinians and Yemenis who, he says, "betrayed their Arab brothers by cheering Saddam's invasion." Dornan, whose Orange County constituency has the largest concentration of Vietnamese...
...post in this government," says an ex-minister, "is going to have a thankless task." One of the most thankless tasks will be to sell the Kuwaitis on the timing of parliamentary elections. Many hoped the balloting would take place this year, so there was much grumbling when the Emir announced that it would be next year, "God willing." Now it appears the elections will occur not even in the spring of 1992 but in the fall, which surely will further anger the voters...
Sheehan added that when King Hussein of Jordan asked the Kuwaiti Emir's brother how he planned to respond to Iraqi displeasure at the oil-theft, the Prince replied, "We're not going to respond at all. Let them occupy our territory if they will. We're going to have the U.S. come...
...will have the lives of 100,000 to 150,000 young men on our consciences, not to mention the tens of thousands maimed and wounded, and the terror inflicted upon the women and children through weeks of relentless bombing. All this for the sake of Kuwait and its emir...
...very principles upon which we had justified this intervention. Apologize for our hypocrisy in asserting that we can't meddle in Iraq's internal affairs (in fact, the first truly democratic movement in many years in the Arab world) when we could commit 500,000 troops to returning the emir of Kuwait to his palace...