Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...participation; though the leadership remains accessible through the majlis, the traditional consultation process between ruler and ruled, such consensus politics may not suffice for much longer. The rise of fundamentalist Islam as a political movement in Iran is not lost on the sheiks and emirs. At least two states-Kuwait and Bahrain-plan to revive consultative assemblies soon, while Saudi Arabia is in the process of forming a new assembly that will hold its first elections in the next year...
...Kuwait is politically and economically the most advanced of the gulf states. It became a constitutional monarchy after it gained its independence from Britain in 1961. In 1976, the 50-member National Assembly was suspended, but last month the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Sheik Saad al Salah, announced that the assembly would be restored in February, after general elections. The move to bring back parliamentary life is a clear bid to contain rising discontent...
WASHINGTON D.C.-Georgetown University received $1 million this month from Kuwait for an endowed chair in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, spurring charges that the university was compromising its independence...
University officials accepted the gift from Kuwait in a public ceremony and said the endowment would improve Arab studies and the university's School of Foreign Service...
...pressures, in fact, had been considerable. Within days of the original Knesset bill annexing Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia and Iraq announced they would cut all diplomatic and economic ties, including oil shipments, to any country that kept its embassy in Jerusalem. Early last week Kuwait and Libya joined the ultimatum, bluntly giving Holland 30 days to make up its mind. As the recipient of up to a quarter of a million barrels of oil daily from Kuwait alone, the Dutch were in no position to resist...