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...Emir has declared that a "rightly guided society lets neither the criminal go unpunished nor the innocent bear the blame for others," but Kuwait has already expressed its preference for punishment. As for U.S. Ambassador Edward Gnehm's observation that "no matter how emotionally difficult it is, Kuwaitis must now champion justice and fairness for all people in Kuwait in the same way the entire world stood for those principles for Kuwaitis," well, Gnehm must share a speechwriter with the Emir...
...when the announcer recalled the troops who stole computer screens thinking they were TVs, and then wondered why "Lotus 123" never came on the air. When not laughing at their onetime tormentors, some Kuwaitis poke fun at the desirability of living in their wrecked country. A favorite joke has Kuwait's Public Works Ministry rushing to complete a new highway to Saudia Arabia, with all six lanes going...
COVER Photomontage. Kuwait's burning oil fields by Christopher Morris -- Black Star for TIME; Saddam Hussein by Susan May Tell -- SABA
Later, realizing he had failed to dissuade Bush from launching a ground assault against the Iraqi army in Kuwait, Gorbachev took pains to assure the U.S. President that there were no hard feelings. He signed off after one of their last wartime calls, in English, "O.K., goodbye...
Saddam Hussein still defies the world, and Kuwait is rushing back to the past. But there are halting steps toward a Mideast peace conference...