Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told, Sadat was taking some venturesome steps at a time when the Middle East's other protagonists were hesitant about taking any steps at all. Before the Salzburg summit, he prepared his ground skillfully by swinging through Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Syria. Accordingly, he will meet Ford not merely as Egypt's representative but, he said in Damascus, as the spokesman of all the Arab people...
During his pre-summit soundings, Sadat told a press conference in Kuwait: "President Ford can solve the crisis if he wants to. The U.S. is in possession of 90% of the cards in the game." Therefore, he announced, he would seek a commitment that the U.S. would not agree to continued Israeli occupation of Arab territory. He also let it be known that, in view of congressional support for up to $2.5 billion in aid requested by Israel in the next fiscal year, he too intended to ask for American financial help. Publicly, the Ford Administration demurred at granting...
...Egyptian President nonetheless remains the dominant Arab spokesman in current moves toward peace negotiations. Preparing to meet next week with President Ford in Salzburg, Sadat wound up a series of visits to Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Syria in search of an Arab consensus. He found a formula for the knotty problem of Palestinian representation at any future Geneva Conference. King Hussein would represent Jordan; at the same time, however, a Palestinian delegation would be designated, and other Arab states, with support from the Soviets, would press the U.S. to seat it along with Hussein...
Operation Kuwait and Eleven Bullets for Mohammed by Harry Arvay (Bantam; $1.25 each) are the noisiest and most simple-minded of all the current Kalashnikov operas. The author is an Israeli billed as a ";former undercover agent." The cover of the Kuwait book, which is about an attack on a Black September training camp, exactly describes the product: "Timebomb excitement! Nonstop action! The crack Israeli Secret Service v. the International Sky Terrorists." These two wild Easterns are part of an Arvay series. At least three more such thunderations are threatened in fiscal...
...their foreign policy, the Iraqi Baathists spearheaded the Arab "rejection front" against Israel, refusing to accept even United Nations' peace resolutions on the Middle East, much less the Jewish state's right to exist. Iraq consistently championed extremists within the Palestine Liberation Organization and also threatened Kuwait, claiming at one point that the tiny nearby sheikdom was historically part of Iraq. Armed by the Soviets, Baghdad's rulers quarreled with Iran not only over borders, but also over the minority of 2 million non-Arab Iraqi Kurds. When Tehran backed the Kurds' demands for autonomy...