Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occurred when members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries confirmed that the group has in effect abandoned any effort to curb its production, thus ensuring a worsening global glut. Meeting in Vienna under dark snow clouds, a committee of oil ministers from five OPEC nations--Venezuela, Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates--declined to propose any new output limit for the 13- member group. Their decision goes along with the strategy being pursued by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other wealthy oil producers, who are flooding the market with excess petroleum. These countries aim to push prices excruciatingly...
Reports of Safran's acceptance of the two grants has drawn criticism from scholars at Harvard and around the world. Spence's report and news of Safran's resignation as director of the center has drawn international media attention, making headlines in England, Kuwait and Israel, among other nations...
...Other experts in Paris laid their own cultural claims. "I regard him first and foremost as an Arab thinker," said Muslim Professor Abderrahmane Badawi of Kuwait University. Huseyin Atay, who teaches religious thought in Saudi Arabia, agreed: "If you didn't know he was Jewish, you might easily make the mistake of saying that a Muslim was writing." Israeli Historian Shlomo Pines said, "Maimonides is the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages and quite possibly of all time...
...took the Weir-delivered threat seriously, but both the State Department and the government of Kuwait reaffirmed their determination not to capitulate to terrorists. Release of the prisoners, said a Kuwaiti official, "has never been a condition in any negotiation." In Washington, State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb said the Government "will not pressure other governments to make concessions to those holding hostages." Washington has been firm in its support of Kuwait's punishment of the jailed terrorists, who left 60 wounded and five dead in their wake. Both countries would now find it difficult to back down...
There were vague indications that Iran might have played a role in Weir's sudden release. His kidnapers have been linked to al Dawa, a militant pro- Iranian party with followers in Lebanon, which has insistently demanded freedom for the prisoners in Kuwait. There was also speculation that Weir might have been held for a time in Iran. To that, U.S. spokesmen responded with a frosty "No comment." But top Administration officials clearly indicated that Syria had no part in Weir's release, despite the prominent role Damascus played in securing the freedom of the TWA hijack victims. A senior...