Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...direct air attacks," says Zagorin. "It was a sobering and frightening experience." Meanwhile, Drozdiak was on his way back to Cairo from a four-day conference of Islamic ministers in Fez, Morocco, when the fighting erupted. He dashed to Rome to connect with an all-night flight to Kuwait, and by Friday he was surveying the bomb-shattered port town of Basra, Iraq. Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart hastened back to Beirut to coordinate TIME's coverage of the war. He had been sipping tea in the royal palace at Amman, Jordan, waiting to interview King Hussein, when...
...miles wide at its narrowest point, at the southern end of the gulf, might be closed because of the hostilities. Halting the flow of the supertankers that steam through the passage would have a devastating ripple effect (see following story) by preventing the shipment of oil from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the smaller gulf states. That kind of drop in world supplies would be intolerable...
...Phantoms returned to bomb and rocket Basra's vast new petrochemical complex. Twenty-nine people were killed in that raid, some of them Britons, Americans and other foreign workers among a labor force of thousands. The foreigners and their families fled in cars and buses to the Kuwait border 15 miles away. "It all happened so fast," said Briton Roger Elliott. "I was just sitting there getting my truck started when I looked up and saw these jets screaming towards me. The bombs exploded 50 yards away and I could feel the skin on my face being peeled...
...embargo on Iraqi harbors and oil facilities like Basra and proclaimed Iranian territorial waters a "war zone." Ships passing through Hormuz were advised by Iranian navy craft to avoid Iraqi ports. While for the most part the traffic-and the oil-kept flowing, some supertanker captains hove to. Off Kuwait, a fleet of the giant ships dropped anchor, waiting...
...fact, much power will probably remain within the Chamber of Commerce, where Kuwait's so-called 14 families, the country's business elite, congregate to debate policy. It is this oligarchy that many young Kuwaitis find unacceptable. Although per capita income for Kuwait's 1.5 million people is $15,000 a year, there have been complaints, largely from academics, that 95% of the wealth goes to only 5% of the population...