Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department had indicated American willingness to sell the prestigious F-4 Phantom jet fighter-bomber to Saudi Arabia, a heavy financial backer of the Palestinian liberation movement against Israel. The department also disclosed that negotiations were under way for the sale of other advanced armaments to another Arab country, Kuwait...
There is no doubt about the eagerness of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to buy U.S. arms. Saudi Arabia is negotiating for up to $ 1 billion worth of Phantoms and other equipment, such as gunboats, minesweepers and landing craft. Kuwait wants about $500 million worth of equipment (including undetermined aircraft) and services to help build airfields, for example. Though such sales would also help the U.S. balance of payments, Washington sources indicate there are bigger factors involved here...
...reserves and volume of production, the North African nation of Libya ranks decidedly behind such major Middle Eastern producers as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. But in ability to send shock waves through the world petroleum industry, Libya stands second to none. Libyans have already helped lead the ten other members of OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, in doubling per-barrel prices over the past three years. In the past two years, Libya's President, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, has nationalized British Petroleum's operations and negotiated a 50% share in Italian oil holdings; earlier this year...
...might happen in the next 25 years. Lebanon, Jordan and Israel could agree to harness common rivers for electric power and irrigation. Egypt and Israel build a trans-Sinai railway from Tel Aviv to Cairo. All the nations of the Fertile Crescent join in a Middle East Common Market. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya each contribute one-half of 1 % of oil revenues toward the education and resettlement of Palestinian refugees...
...Kuwait and Iraq were engaged in border skirmishes last week over a stretch of Kuwaiti oil land that Iraq claims as its own; in fact, the Iraqis claim all of Kuwait, not only for its oil but also for its wider access to the Persian Gulf. Both Jordan's King Hussein and Sudan's President Jaafar Numeiry were troubled by the Palestinian Black September terrorists in their jails: Hussein decided to commute the death sentences of 16 guerrillas but to hold them in prison, while Numeiry proceeded with plans to try eight Black Septembrists for the murder...