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Thousands of companies and individuals lost billions of dollars in Iraq's devastation of Kuwait, and now they'd like to get some of it back. Do they stand a chance? The cumbersome legal machinery is creaking into motion, and many victims, ranging from multinational corporations to families seeking modest payments for homes looted and destroyed, may well receive compensation -- eventually. Before legal action can begin, the U.N. must settle details of a special compensation fund to be financed out of a still unfixed percentage of Iraq's future oil revenues. The U.N. model may be the U.S-Iran claims tribunal...
...Rafsanjani has succeeded on one major front: he has shed much of Iran's ultraconservative image and upgraded or restored ties with many European and Middle Eastern countries as well as Canada. Rafsanjani's opposition to Iraq's seizure of Kuwait, despite calls in the Majlis for Iran to back Saddam Hussein, earned Tehran considerable credit in foreign capitals...
These are some of the nightmarish recollections of the more than 18,000 people crammed into two huge, dusty tent camps along the Iraq-Kuwait border, one of them run by U.S. troops near the site where the Iraqi military accepted the allied cease-fire. The residents are the refugees of Safwan, most of them Shi'ites, who fled from Saddam Hussein's vengeful army when it recaptured several rebellious cities in the south after...
...only was Omar sure that the Iraqis would kill many Kurds in Kirkuk in reprisal, but he also knew that he would be in more trouble than most. He is an ex-Iraqi army lieutenant who refused the call to return to duty after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. So he gathered his family and a few belongings and started the trip toward Iran, leaving his car behind because the road was already a chaotic snarl...
...Kuwait, water and reforms remain elusive...