Word: kuwaiti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration said that despite the Iraqi attack on an American frigate, "general agreement" has been reached with Kuwait to put American flags and American captains aboard Kuwaiti oil tankers operating in the gulf. The purpose is to protect the shipping lanes of the Straits of Hormuz...
...10th convoy since U.S. warships began escorting reflagged Kuwaiti tankers 21/2 months ago resumed its voyage down the Persian Gulf yesterday...
...start of the fractious meeting it seemed that any agreement might be scuttled by Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali Khalifa Al-Sabah and his Saudi Arabian counterpart Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, OPEC's two richest members, had insisted on bolstering their production by some 10%. In the end, Saudi Arabia accepted no increase for itself and instead offered to donate its share of the 200,000 bbl.-a-day production hike to Kuwait...
...took the Weir-delivered threat seriously, but both the State Department and the government of Kuwait reaffirmed their determination not to capitulate to terrorists. Release of the prisoners, said a Kuwaiti official, "has never been a condition in any negotiation." In Washington, State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb said the Government "will not pressure other governments to make concessions to those holding hostages." Washington has been firm in its support of Kuwait's punishment of the jailed terrorists, who left 60 wounded and five dead in their wake. Both countries would now find it difficult to back down...
This was the first hijacking of an American airliner in the Middle East since Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, and the Administration was deeply disturbed. It was convinced that the hijackers of Flight 847 were in the same league as the ones who seized a Kuwaiti airliner last December, took it to Tehran and eventually killed two American passengers. That incident ended when the Iranians sent a platoon of security men aboard the plane dressed as a maintenance crew. The hijackers were arrested, but there is no evidence that they were ever brought to justice...