Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk. During the 1954 conference on the French withdrawal from Indochina, when no hotel wanted to house the Soviet delegation, the city actually bought the lakeside Metropole Hotel to accommodate it. Some of the newer hotels have become conference sites on their own. The Intercontinental, a sort of nouveau Kuwait-style palace where Secre
Some Washington officials speculate that at least some of the kidnapings were the work of Al Dawa (the Call), an Iraqi Shi'ite fundamentalist group that is thought to have perpetrated the December 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy and other targets in Kuwait. This would explain offers to free at least some of the Americans in exchange for the release of 17 Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for the bombings. But many Western diplomats in Beirut believe that another Shi'ite organization, called Hizballah (Party of God), might also be holding the Americans. Callers to Western news agencies...
...week's agreement largely settled a long-festering dispute over the price differentials between two major grades of oil, light and heavy. The light-crude producers like the United Arab Emirates needed lower official prices in order to remain competitive with less expensive heavy oil produced by countries like Kuwait and Venezuela. The group also took the symbolic step of abandoning Arab Light as the bench-mark price for all OPEC crude. Arab Light, once the world's most important oil, is now just another grade struggling in a world awash in oil. Admitted OPEC's current chairman, Subroto...
...Operation Moses apparently triggered Sudanese fears of alienating other Arab states, none of which--with the sole exception of Egypt--has diplomatic relations with Israel. The concern was justified. Libya requested a special session of the Arab League, and newspapers in many Arab states last week condemned Sudan. Thundered Kuwait's Al Rai al A'am: "The smuggling of Ethiopian Jews across Sudan can be regarded not as a passing event but as a new defeat inflicted on the Arab nation...
...explode to kingdom come. In September, the rig came hurtling at the U.S. embassy annex in East Beirut, but a well-aimed shot by a bodyguard caused it to blow up short of its main target and kept casualties low. Religious fanaticism played a part in the hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 221, when gun-toting youths, their eyes staring coldly out of paper masks, riveted the world's attention on a Tehran tarmac for six days. Affiliations were never declared, but the hoodlums were believed to belong to the Hizballah (Party of God), the shadowy Shi'ite group blamed...