Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some experts fear that Iran may redouble its air attacks against tankers leaving ports in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, two of Iraq's chief financial backers. Iran could also launch its long-awaited offensive along the central battlefront between Baghdad and Basra, where Tehran claims to have 650,000 men. Whatever the response, the Sirri raid has only increased the ferocity of a seemingly endless...
Within three days, the cartel endorsed the plan. It requires the Saudis to slash production from a July average of 5.8 million bbl. a day to 4.35 million. Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are also called upon to make hefty cuts, reducing their combined output by roughly 40%, to some 1.85 million...
...extremists who are holding the three Americans are seeking the release of 17 of their kinsmen and allies who are imprisoned in Kuwait for bombing several buildings, including the French and American embassies in 1983. The Administration's position: it will not negotiate with terrorists and will not ask Kuwait to do so. In any case, the Kuwaitis have said they would refuse any such request...
...Libya. That leaves three American hostages: Anderson, 38, an Associated Press correspondent; David Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut; and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean of agriculture. Jihad's chief objective seems to be the release of 17 people jailed in Kuwait for bombing the French and American embassies...
...phone just wouldn't stop ringing," says an official who remembers the weeks which followed the news that the Center's director, Nadav Safran, had used more than $150,000 of the CIA's money to fund academic work. "From Voice of America, from Kuwait, Iran, Iraq--from all over the world--they wanted to know about our work...