Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been responsible for most of the attacks on Persian Gulf shipping, and it was misguided Iraqi missiles that blindsided the U.S.S. Stark in May. But in response, the Reagan Administration lashed out at Iran and pushed its plan to put American flags on tankers belonging to Iraq's ally Kuwait...
...prime beneficiaries of the American operation are Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Yet when the U.S. finally decided to dispatch minesweeping helicopters to the region last week, it was unable to negotiate the right to use bases in those two countries. The choppers had to be transported to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, 3,000 miles from Kuwait. It will take a ship a week to carry them from there to the Persian Gulf...
...fact, it does. If the U.S. shrank from its commitment to protect free shipping in the gulf, it might as well discard any pretense of being a superpower. Nor could the U.S. afford to stand by idly after the Soviets earlier this year eagerly accepted Kuwait's invitation to help protect its oil shipments...
...them by Albert Hakim, an American businessman used by Poindexter and North to handle the finances in the arms sales. The points included yet further weapons deals. More shocking, they included U.S. involvement in a scheme to win the release of 17 Al Dawa Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for blowing up a U.S. embassy building there...
...with Arab Iraq. Assad is believed unlikely to be ready to change sides in the gulf war, in part because of the oil concessions he gets from Iran. Nonetheless, the meeting raised hopes that he may be interested in improving ties with such moderate states as Jordan and Kuwait...