Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Death to the imperialist!" shouted Iraq's General Abdul Karim Kassem. "Return Kuwait to its homeland...
Sprinting from speech to speech on the third anniversary of his revolutionary regime, volatile Kassem repeated last week that he would not use force to "liberate" Kuwait-and in the next breath threatened force against Britain. "We shall launch a bitter war against the British if they do not heed right and abandon oppression!" he told the crowds after reviewing a 2½-hour parade of troops and weapons in Baghdad's Liberation Square...
...brave talk, Kassem was in a tight corner. Britain announced that it was withdrawing 2,000 of the 5,000 troops it had rushed to defend Kuwait against Kassem, and Kuwait emphasized its eagerness to speed the evacuation. But in a barbed memorandum issued after a hurried visit to Nasser, the Kuwaitis declared that they would not ask the British to leave until either 1) Kassem drops all claims on their land, or 2) other Arab countries provide a police force of their own to replace the British, and themselves guarantee Kuwait's independence. The plan...
...British, insisting that they were anxious to get out as soon as Kassem dropped his demands, offered their own resolution, which called upon the U.N. to support Kuwait's independence and territorial integrity. The Russians, as always unwilling to see a good quarrel settled, briskly vetoed...
...expected to guard the frontier at least until after July 14, third anniversary of Iraq's revolution, when Kassem's next round of oratory may reveal his intentions. If and when they withdraw entirely, the British had shown that they can get back in a hurry if Kuwait needs them...