Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Describing the Sinai accord as "treason against the Egyptian people," they said they would kill their hostages if Sadat did not repudiate the Sinai agreement and abandon implementation talks on the accord that are underway in Geneva. The Iraqi and Algerian ambassadors, later joined by those from Jordan and Kuwait, rushed to help their captive colleague. They communicated with the terrorists by passing notes under a door...
...expect crude to flow in ever increasing quantities from an undersea supply estimated at 40 billion bbl., two to four times the recoverable reserves from Alaska's North Slope. Some experts say the total could be 70 billion bbl.-roughly equal to the so-far proven reserves of Kuwait-or even 150 billion...
...more than strawberries. On the foreign exchange, the pound opened at an alltime low of 29.2% below the value fixed by agreement with Britain's main trading partners at the end of 1971. One reason for the drop: nervous Arab depositors began withdrawing funds from London banks. Kuwait alone converted ?50 million into dollars in one day. A gentle slide of the pound had been viewed by many economists as a healthy means of erasing some of the trading disadvantages created by the differing rates of inflation between Britain and its competitors. But now the slide was clearly threatening...
...state of Israel." Rabin declined such assurance. "We can't entrust our defense to anyone else," he said. Israeli concern was scarcely lightened last week by the news of an agreement in which Egypt, already deeply in debt, will use $1 billion advanced by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to purchase arms in Britain...
...Arab people. So far, he has had some success. Several new housing cities are rising alongside the Suez Canal as part of a rebuilding program that goes hand in hand with canal renovations: Faisal City, named for the late King of Saudi Arabia; Sabah City for the Sheik of Kuwait; Zayed City in honor of Abu Dhabi's Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al Nahayan...