Word: kuwaiti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thereby cutting the main roads south from Beirut and isolating such Palestinian strongholds as Nabatiyeh, Tyre and Hasbaya. Then on Friday morning, in their fifth strike within seven days, the Israelis launched their assault on Beirut, hitting not only at Palestinian and Syrian positions near Beirut airport and the Kuwaiti embassy but also at the Shatila refugee camp. On Saturday, as Israeli planes made still another raid on southern Lebanon, Palestinian guerrillas lobbed a few more Katyusha rockets at northern Israel. The Palestinian action was noteworthy less for its scope than for the fact that it occurred so soon after...
...Kuwait has built an impressive investment portfolio, with some $7 billion in the securities of a rich slice of U.S. industry that includes everything from computer companies to energy firms to banks. The Kuwaiti U.S. portfolio is managed chiefly by New York's Citibank, though reportedly Kuwaiti officials have threatened to move some of it elsewhere because of dissatisfaction with the bank's management of their investments...
...plan has been previously reported to involve two parts: 1) up to $4 billion in economic aid to Syria, which would bolster the regime of President Hafez Assad and go far to alleviate Syria's isolation in the Arab world; and 2) the addition of Saudi and perhaps Kuwaiti troops to the Arab Deterrent Force, now all Syrian, that entered Lebanon in 1976 under a peace-keeping mandate from the Arab League. The diversification of troops would assuage charges by right-wing Lebanese Christians that the Syrians have become an occupation army...
...visit their northern border, can see the flames of burning Iranian and Iraqi oil installations; their nation borders on the war zone. Kuwait shares Saudi concerns over its own potentially troublesome Shi'ite minorities. Its protestations of strict neutrality were not very persuasive; reporters crossing the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border last week counted over 100 gleaming new Toyota Landcruisers waiting to roll into Iraq. Nevertheless, Kuwait is also understandably schizophrenic about supporting Iraq because of a special problem: Iraq has longstanding territorial claims on Kuwait. If Iraq were to win the war and emerge as a new gulf superpower, logically...
About the time that Soudan was opening his shipping firm, a man calling himself Bert Stem-fortyish, with gray hair and a vaguely Germanic accent-appeared in Piraeus, Greece, to hire a crew capable of working a supertanker. The load was to be 194,000 tons of Kuwaiti oil, to be delivered in Genoa to an independent Italian oil company, Pontoil. On Nov. 30, the ship-Soudan's Salem-sailed for Kuwait and picked up the crude. After four days at sea, however, the cargo was sold to Shell in a normal spot-market transaction. Shell kept Genoa...