Word: kuwaiti
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...Saddam spoiled his own party. He rejected a condition that he respect U.N. resolutions calling for weapons inspections in Iraq and an accounting of some 600 missing Kuwaiti pows. "If sanctions aren't lifted," threatened Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, "no Kuwaiti should sleep well at night." This is the other face of Saddam, one that will keep him in his box for a while. Arab leaders so willing to lift the sanctions have no real love for Saddam. Arabs paying homage to Iraq are not rehabilitating Saddam but appeasing public opinion, grudgingly acknowledging political and economic realities...
...common ground on the eventual need to lift sanctions that hurt Iraqi citizens, yet at the same time to keep watch on Saddam's military expansion. Arab allies may continue to complain about U.S. air strikes in defense of "no-fly" zones in northern and southern Iraq. But Kuwaiti and Saudi officials seem in no hurry to close the U.S. air bases in their countries. Containment, though, is no long-term solution to the Saddam problem. The running sore of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will continue to increase Arab anger - and Saddam's street popularity...
...team began investigating the cause of a bombing accident at a military training range in the Kuwaiti desert. Three 227-kg bombs killed five American servicemen and one New Zealander when a U.S. fighter jet missed its target in a training exercise. The F-18 navy plane dropped its load on an observation post and parked cars more than 2 km from its intended target. Investigations will focus on the role of the pilot and the air controller in directing the strike, which wounded up to a dozen others, including Kuwaitis...
...been a decade since Greenspan last faced such a long line of complainers. In 1991, as the post-Gulf War economy began cooling off like the Kuwaiti oil fields, conservatives begged Greenspan for a rate cut to help George Bush hold on to the presidency. Greenspan wouldn't play. His decision infuriated Republicans. But it also got a group of conservative economists noodling the idea of emasculating the Fed, removing much of the discretion that makes the institution both powerful and dangerous...
...When we got to Kuwait City, we figured that the place to go was the Emir's palace. The Kuwaiti resistance hadn't shown up. A watchman there said don't go in, it might be booby-trapped. But we went in slowly, carefully, looking for trip wires or other signs of booby traps. There weren't any. Eventually, we got to the Emir's bedroom. It was covered by about three feet of emptied jewelry boxes. Everything had been taken - the refrigerated cabinets to hold the furs were empty. The only thing the Iraqis didn't take were...