Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more citizens of the Arab world on their TV sets: the siege of Beirut, the brutality of the ceasefire violations, the Beirut negotiations leading toward the Israeli goal of expelling the P.L.O. fighting force from Lebanon. Even Arabs with the highest stakes in the gulf war, the emirs of Kuwait and princes of Saudi Arabia, have been traumatized and distracted from their more immediate problems by the war in Lebanon. They have watched the first siege of an Arab capital by an Israeli army, and they have become alarmed at the emotions aroused in their own countries...
...Shatt al Arab waterway and Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. Yet most Iraqis despise Khomeini's brand of Islamic fanaticism and prefer the secular nature of Saddam Hussein's government. Saddam Hussein's downfall would also provoke grave apprehensions in the gulf sheikdoms (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates). Those states and Saudi Arabia have poured at least $20 billion into Iraqi coffers to help keep the advancing Iranian forces at bay. If Iraq succumbs to Khomeini's aggression, it would probably become a Shi'ite-ruled Arab nation inclined...
...Swiss-based, iron-fisted ruling organization, expanded the number of qualifying first-round teams from 16 to 24. The soccer heavyweights complained. The inclusion of nations such as El Salvador, Northern Ireland and Algeria would merely prolong the first round, they muttered privately. Teams like Cameroon and Kuwait would bore the fans. New Zealand and Honduras would increase the probability that stars like Argentina's sensational Diego Maradona, Brazil's Zico and Germany's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge would suffer injuries...
...make up these national teams ordinarily tend toward cautious play; after all, too much money is involved to take chances. Income is more important than imagination. But upsetting results soon came in: Cameroon held the vastly superior Peru and Poland to scoreless draws the week before last. Tiny Kuwait tied a heavily favored Czechoslovakia, 1-1. And Algeria humiliated mighty West Germany, 2-1. "When I heard about Algeria," said the great Pelé, now retired and covering the games for a Mexican television network, "I thought the World Cup had gone...
Most journalists and soccer pundits, perhaps preoccupied with tiny oil-rich Kuwait's wealth, had ignored its quiet progress in soccer. Coached by the well-regarded Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira, the players were briefly sequestered in the Sahara-like climate of Valladolid in north-central Spain but worked out twice daily (and prayed to Allah the requisite five times daily). They broke the monotony by appearing for carefully rehearsed "photo opportunities," dancing around their camel mascot, which sports a FIFA identity card and a team jacket...