Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again the grainy color photographs showed the harrowed faces of hostages. This time the pictures of four Americans and two Frenchmen, delivered last Thursday to several daily newspapers in Beirut and printed by some of them the next day, came accompanied by an ominous warning: unless the government of Kuwait agreed to release 17 Muslim fundamentalist terrorists jailed there for bombing the U.S. and French embassies in December 1983, the American captives would suffer "catastrophic consequences" and their captors would "terrorize America and France forever...
...terrorists had previously threatened to execute their captives but had not explicitly linked the hostages' fate with that of the prisoners in Kuwait. The same group is believed to have hijacked a Kuwaiti airliner last December and killed two Americans aboard in a futile effort to win freedom for their terrorist brothers. In its message to the hostages' families last week, Islamic Jihad declared, "For the last time, we wish to stress that all contact with your relatives will be cut off and the consequences will be catastrophic if you do not act seriously and force your governments to intervene...
That warning, combined with the gaunt images of their loved ones, persuaded the families to make public pleas to Washington and Kuwait to reverse their long-standing refusal to meet Islamic Jihad's demands. At a news conference in Washington, Peggy Say, sister of the kidnaped Anderson, warned that the situation had reached "the crisis point." Said she: "This new demand, this ultimatum, makes me feel we've got to work harder before something very bad happens." The Rev. Jesse Jackson, to whom Islamic Jihad's latest message had also been addressed, joined the families in putting pressure...
...assumed in Washington that some of the missing Americans are being held by pro-Iranian Lebanese Shi'ite groups that hope to swap their prisoners for 19 militant Islamic fundamentalists imprisoned in Kuwait. With that in mind, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz recently sent a message through the Swiss government warning Iran that Washington would not be slow to retaliate should an American captive be killed...
...assessment of world demand for energy products. Total U.S. consumption of petroleum products rose only 4% last year after a five-year decline. In addition, Western refineries face increasing competition from oil- producing countries, which now refine their own crude at home. Between 1984 and 1988, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Kuwait, Libya and other oil countries will add about 3 million bbl. a day to their refining capacity...