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...tracer fire along the three-hour flight. In Baghdad, the Red Cross treated the famished journalists to what Suau called "our first really good meal in six days" before busing them to Jordan, where they were released. "The ironic thing," Morris recalls, "is that we went from Dhahran to Kuwait City to Basra to Baghdad to Amman, and not one roll of film to show for it." We regret that too, but we've settled happily for having the pair safely out of Iraq...
...Skip" in question was Edward ("Skip") Gnehm Jr., 46, the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait. The "problem" was really a fear. Many Kuwaitis were afraid that the U.S., after having freed their country from Iraq's domination, aimed to run the place as an American colony and that Skip Gnehm was George Bush's designated proconsul...
...interests section in Damascus. When Washington wanted a presence in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, Gnehm was selected. When the sensitive issue of reflagging Kuwaiti oil tankers arose during the Iran-Iraq war, Gnehm was a key negotiator. "He is unassuming and unflappable," says Ali al- Khalifa al-Sabah, Kuwait's Finance Minister, "exactly the kind of guy to deal with Arabs like...
...into the gulf in January. The Saudis and Kuwaitis argued over what to do. It took 48 hours of patient haggling, but Gnehm finally got both sides to agree: U.S. bombers would blast Al-Ahmadi oil facility's manifolds to stem the flow. Gnehm's best trick was getting Kuwait's Oil Minister to believe the idea had been his all along...
...hard to minimize Kuwaiti retaliation against those who collaborated with the Iraqis; and Gnehm who has insisted that the government's ministers cease promising the imminent return of services, something they are weeks if not months away from accomplishing. In a particularly significant triumph shortly before he welcomed home Kuwait's Emir last Thursday, Gnehm persuaded the electrical-repair teams to begin toiling around the clock; previously, they were putting in eight-hour days. "Imagine," says another Western diplomat, "Kuwait is falling apart, and something that obvious has to be counted as a diplomatic coup...