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Just six months ago, it was hard to imagine anything much worse than the prospect of Saddam Hussein and his million-man army in control of Kuwait and one-fifth of the world's oil reserves. But an even more frightening specter has since emerged: a wounded and vengeful Saddam with a smaller army whose best punch is an atom bomb...
...None whatsoever. Not in the sense that Jordan's objective was to avoid war and to reverse the occupation of Kuwait peacefully. We were never for the Iraqi invasion, never a party to it and never aware it was going to happen. But a majority of the world, including the U.S., adopted an attitude that you are either with us or against us. Let me be very, very clear: we were against Iraq's action, and we were against Iraq's intransigence in not taking any of the opportunities to resolve this question peacefully. We never conspired against anybody. When...
...haven't talked even on the telephone since the first few days of his occupation of Kuwait. From time to time, an Iraqi official passes by. I am very frank in expressing my views...
President TURGUT OZAL of Turkey is angry because nearly $1 billion in assistance from the government of Kuwait has yet to be delivered. The Kuwaitis promised Ozal the money last autumn as thanks for his country's membership in the anti-Iraq coalition. The Turks claim they lost millions of dollars in fees by shutting down an Iraqi oil pipeline that cut through Turkish soil. U.S. officials are pressuring the Kuwaitis to pony up a substantial chunk of the aid before President Bush visits Turkey later this month...
Weak growth would bring an anti-climactic end to a recession that began last July and worsened sharply after Saddam Hussein's forces invaded Kuwait in August. In the anxious weeks that followed, U.S. consumer confidence plunged to levels not seen since the 1981-82 slump before rebounding on the strength of the swift American-led victory in the gulf war. But gauges of consumer confidence began falling as soon as the euphoria wore off and have tumbled in each of the past two months...