Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the broiling, dusty afternoons of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, sleep is the preferred activity for most citizens of Kuwait. Lately, that slumber has proved fitful for the oil-rich, stubbornly independent nation and its capital city of glinting office buildings and flashy houses striving for modernity. Increasingly, Kuwait has been drawn into the four-year-old war between neighboring Iraq and nearby Iran...
...past six weeks, three of Kuwait's oil tankers have been attacked in the Persian Gulf as Iran, angered by Iraq's attacks on tankers carrying its oil, has taken out its frustrations on Iraq's Arab allies. With the expansion of the conflict, Kuwait sees the good life it has carved out for itself endangered by a war it does not consider its own. Asserts Foreign Minister Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the state's Foreign Minister: "The war is on our doorstep, and we feel the dangers more than others...
...relieved that the Saudis had met the challenge. The Reagan Administration had evoked considerable congressional resentment two weeks ago by using its emergency powers to rush 400 Stinger missiles to Saudi Arabia. But it was not prepared to do the same for Kuwait, a gulf state with which the U.S. has had frequent disagreements. Though Kuwait's refineries and desalinization plants are painfully exposed, the White House turned down Kuwait's request to buy 500 Stingers...
...invoked his emergency powers to sell Saudi Arabia 400 shoulder-fired Stinger antiaircraft missiles and to provide a fourth aerial tanker, a KC-10, that can refuel Saudi fighters in flight. The moves were intended to help the Saudis protect shipping from Iranian air assault in the Persian Gulf. Kuwait promptly made an unofficial request for Stingers; the U.S. suggested it turn to European suppliers...
...position of being able to capitalize hugely on the next energy crisis as it did in 1979 and 1973. About 75 years ago the university received 2 million acres of scrub land in 19 west Texas counties--which no one expected to one day become America's version of Kuwait...