Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since this spring, Cairo-Based Correspondent David S. Jackson has logged thousands of miles crisscrossing the gulf region from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, Kuwait, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. His real preparation for this week's assignment, however, began nearly nine years ago, when he started covering Khomeini's fundamentalist Islamic revolution. That brought him eyeball to eyeball with the Ayatullah, whom Jackson interviewed in a Paris suburb in 1979. "Back then," recalls Jackson, "none of us expected Khomeini would still be as domineering, provocative and full of vitality as his revolution. The passions that I saw sweeping the country then...
...mine was about 50 miles southeast of Kuwait's Al-Ahmadi oil terminal, loading point for U.S. escorted Kuwaiti tankers...
Eleven of Kuwait's 21 tankers are being registered as American vessels so they can be given Navy protection. Kuwait also charters tankers flying the Soviet and British flags in its attempt to evade attacks Iran began last September on vessels owned by or serving the emirate...
Iran accuses Kuwait of receiving arms shipments for Iraq, its eastern neighbor at the northern end of the gulf. Iraq's ports were closed soon after the war began in September...
...plan. But many involved say that top officials were too distracted by the Iran-contra controversy to examine its implications fully. Ironically, the scandal provided an impetus to the reflagging proposal. Moderate Arab states reacted angrily last fall to news that the U.S. had secretly dealt with Iran. Kuwait then requested Soviet protection for its tankers. Administration officials concede that granting assistance to Kuwait was a way to make up for the U.S.'s loss of credibility and to counter the Soviet move...