Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assad's plight was aggravated last week when a meeting of the Prime Ministers of four nations-Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait-that had been scheduled in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh was suddenly postponed. The meeting had been set up by the Saudis and Kuwait to heal the long-simmering feud between Syria and Egypt. But the Egyptians flatly refused to discuss the principal reason for the feud-last year's Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreement in Sinai, which Syria still resents. The Syrians, meanwhile, would not listen to Egyptian proposals for a debate...
...Fraser recognizes that persuading the lenders to go along with a refinancing plan will not be easy. Also, he is involved in a damaging dispute with Arab investors. In 1974 the Kuwait Investment Co. hired Sea Pines Co. to oversee a planned $200 million development on Kiawah Island, S.C. Fraser had counted heavily on receiving up to $300,000 annually in profits from the project for the next two decades. But last month the Kuwaitis abruptly canceled the contract and sued Sea Pines for $1.3 million, claiming overcharges. Sea Pines is countersuing for $13.6 million, asserting that the Kuwaitis used...
Israel's "obsession with fear" and "belief that the Arabs have no respect for international obligations" poses an insurmountable block to peace in the Middle East, Abdalla Bishara, Kuwait's ambassador to the United Nations, told 30 students at Dunster House last night...
Bishara was equally pessimistic about the prospects of his own country, Kuwait. "The dynamics of the area reject the establishment of small states on the periphery of the Middle East," he said, and he does not expect Kuwait to exist as a separate political entity after 80 years...
Challenged by David Landes, acting master of Dunster House, about Kuwait's vote on the United Nations resolution that equated zionism and racism, Bishara said "according to the United Nations definition of racism, Zionism is racial discrimination...