Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concern in Washington was heightened last week by six explosions in Kuwait, including that of an explosives-laden truck that crashed through fragile barriers at the U.S. embassy. At least six people were killed and 60 wounded (see WORLD). Believed to be the work of Iran-backed Islamic revolutionaries, the bombings represented an ominous spread of the tactic from Lebanon, where similar attacks in recent months against the U.S. embassy, American and French military barracks near the Beirut airport, and an Israeli army headquarters at Tyre killed a total of 423 people. On Saturday, terrorists struck another chilling blow, this...
...Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists were preparing to flee. In the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut, Israeli troops helped evacuate Christian civilians and Phalangist militiamen from a town besieged by Druze forces for the past three months. Some 900 miles to the southeast, in the gulf state of Kuwait, terrorists unleashed a wave of suicide attacks that bore the increasingly familiar fingerprints of spreading Shi'ite fanaticism...
...Jersey's guns boom, terror hits Kuwait and Arafat sets to flee...
...Damascus ğmore than $1 billion a year in cash, partly because they deem it essential to have at least one strong Arab state confronting Israel. But the payment also serves as a form of protection money to ensure that Assad does not try to overthrow those conservative regimes. Kuwait, with its large population of Syrian guest workers, feels especially vulnerable. "Assad is a very bright man, but he also is very mean," says a United Arab Emirates official. The Syrian leader and Jordan's King Hussein always have been deeply suspicious of each other. Assad grew furious last April...
...company's ethical but naive new vice president, who is portrayed by Dennis Dugan. In one episode Cromwell, played by Patrick Macnee, formerly of The Avengers, is enraged because the company is about to lose a contract to sell $350 mil lion worth of air conditioners to Kuwait...