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...Britain, the host country this year, had been reluctant to invite Gorbachev because they did not want to raise his expectations for aid. As Gorbachev said in Oslo, he thinks he is "entitled to expect large-scale support" to ensure perestroika's success. But, said British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, "I am sure Mr. Gorbachev is not expecting to find a check under the plate" at the London summit. Primakov and other Soviet officials say Gorbachev will not be asking for any specific amount...
...Gorbachev far more than any potential successor to carry through the barely begun pullout of 380,000 Soviet troops from what used to be East Germany. But the summit hosts in Britain are divided. Prime Minister John Major has spoken in favor of inviting Gorbachev, but Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd is known to be strongly opposed...
Other countries are struggling to claim a share of the profits. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd journeyed last month to meet with Kuwait's government-in-exile and seek postwar business. "The Crown Prince has said he will look favorably on Kuwait's supporters," says John Lace, managing director of Britain's Babcock Energy, which builds power plants. "So we are second in the queue." As if to confirm that, Kuwait last week awarded Britain's Attwoods PLC $1 billion to clear the war's rubble and debris...
...hatred, excessive militarization, economic inequities and entrenched feudalism combine to make it a nasty neighborhood. The region has long been -- and remains -- violence-prone, politically archaic, oppressive. The jolt of the gulf war, however, may change the physics for a moment. "Maybe the shock," says British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, "will enable people to think afresh, more constructively." Just as the allies seized the moment to finish off Saddam's army, so too should they seize the opportunity to make lasting changes in Middle Eastern politics...
...more than a rhetorical goal during the first days of the crisis, became the real objective of policy, an ultimatum was shrewd strategy. "The advantage of having a deadline is that it creates the maximum pressure for a peaceful solution in the last days," says British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. Now the deadline is upon us, and it cannot be ignored. If it is, nothing will ever work...