Word: kuwaiti
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...Washington's blandishments. U.S. policy was based on the belief that he wanted to reconstruct his country after the exhausting war with Iran and would need access to the West to do so. Instead Saddam resumed an interrupted march toward domination of the Arab world and figured raiding the Kuwaiti piggy bank would be a surer path to riches than borrowing from the West...
Democracy is so fragile in the Arab world that its appearance even in limited form is encouraging. In a Kuwaiti election last week, the vote was restricted to males 21 and older who were able to trace their ancestry in the emirate to 1920 -- only 13% of the population of 650,000. (Women might be allowed to vote in 1996.) Though small, the vote last week was free enough to enable a coalition opposed to the regime of Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah to win 31 of 50 parliamentary seats. The government can expect sharp debate over its unpreparedness...
...their Commander in Chief a leg up in the pivotal states of Michigan and Ohio. By lobbying hard, they persuaded their friends in KUWAIT to agree to buy 236 heavy M1A2 Abrams tanks. The tanks are made by General Dynamics in Warren, Michigan, and Lima, Ohio. The $1.5 billion Kuwaiti deal could mean thousands of jobs. And since it has been consummated just in time, maybe thousands of votes...
...GEORGE BUSH finds recent polls gloomy, he can very well cheer himself up with the rosy sentiments flowing from Kuwait. The President is still vastly popular in the oil-rich country. So much so in fact that the U.S. embassy there has tactfully had to refuse offers from Kuwaitis eager to help bankroll | the presidential campaign. "We'd rather stay with the man we know," says one Kuwaiti. With such excitement, one wouldn't guess that the country is about to hold its own parliamentary elections next month. Gatherings meant to discuss local politics are now dominated by satellite...
MacArthur quotes many leading journalists gloomily appraising gulf war coverage. But he has few revelations. By far his most striking was unveiled last January in a New York Times op-ed page piece. He debunks the headlined story that Iraqi invaders took Kuwaiti babies out of incubators to die. The star witness in a congressional investigation of this supposed episode was a teary 15-year-old using a pseudonym. She was, in fact, the daughter of Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S., and MacArthur implies that the whole episode was concocted by Kuwaiti officials and their public relations agency, Hill...