Word: kuwait
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...Area, roughly the size of Kuwait, of a topographical feature discovered last week on Saturn's moon Titan that scientists believe could be a lake...
...Nidal, may be the deadliest terrorist alive. He is rarely seen in public, and details of his life are obscure and sometimes contradictory: in 1984, rumors circulated that he had died of heart disease. A year later purported interviews with the Palestinian terrorist were published in France, Kuwait and West Germany. In one of them Abu Nidal, whose nom de guerre means Father of Struggle, bragged that "not even my eight-year-old son Bissam knows exactly...
Since that time, Abu Nidal's followers have killed P.L.O. representatives in Paris, London and Kuwait. They have also launched attacks on P.L.O. offices and personnel in Yugoslavia, Rumania and Poland. In 1982, Arafat accused Abu Nidal of being a hireling of MOSSAD, Israel's elite intelligence agency. That did not put an end to the fratricide: in April 1983, members of the Abu Nidal organization killed moderate P.L.O. Spokesman Issam Sartawi at a meeting of the Socialist International in Albufeira, Portugal...
...been heard of the five remaining American hostages in Lebanon. Washington sources speculate that the Americans are being held not by pro-Libyan extremists, but by members of Islamic Jihad, a pro-Iranian organization that is trying to secure the release of 17 imprisoned Arab terrorists in Kuwait. Islamic Jihad apparently considers the American hostages, while alive, a useful bargaining chip. Anxious to take no chances, however, both Washington and London evacuated dozens of their citizens from West Beirut last week, leaving only about 65 Westerners in the bloodstained Muslim-held area of the city...
...first time, the shadowy group promised to free the three Frenchmen if Paris secured the release of 17 Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for the 1983 bombing attacks on the U.S. and French embassies--a long-standing condition for freeing the U.S. hostages. While the Americans in captivity seemed bitter, the Frenchmen sounded desperate. Kauffmann told his family, "It is horrible to say perhaps I will never see you again, but it is the truth." Diplomat Marcel Fontaine warned, "I cannot stand anymore." In Paris, Kauffmann's wife Joelle called on French officials to "show proof they are capable...