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More than a week ago, a delegation of U.S. legislators presented the crown prince of Kuwait with a letter signed by 90 senators, urging the Kuwaiti government to end its economic boycott of Israel. Such a move on Kuwait's part would be a major confidence-building measure, and would also benefit many U.S. contractors who do business with Israel and are thus not currently allowed by the Kuwaiti government to help rebuild that devastated country...
ABDALY, Kuwait--More than a month after President Bush declared Kuwait liberated, Iraqi forces still control a small pocket of the emirate's territory, a Kuwaiti tank commander said yesterday...
...Kurd. But this time, they have been helped by a convergence of propitious factors. Because Baghdad at first considered the unrest in the Shi'ite areas more threatening, it moved troops in the north southward, giving the guerrillas a more open field. Popular disgust with Saddam's disastrous Kuwaiti adventure fertilized the ground. "Uprising is an art," says Jalal Talabani, Damascus-based leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. "There must be a climate...
These days, it is more of the same. It is Gnehm who has prodded the government into revamping its food-distribution system; Gnehm who watches over the American troops trying 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...
...British and French military men couldn't wait to paw over some of the Soviet-supplied Iraqi tanks littering the Kuwaiti desert. They expected the abandoned armor to be a boon for battlefield training and analysis. But many tanks were reduced to smoldering hulks by guided missiles. Others, taken out by A-10 attack planes, at first appear to be in good condition, until survey crews discover a small hole in their exteriors. That hole indicates that shrapnel produced by armor-piercing shells has destroyed everything inside. Although the allies captured thousands of Iraqi tanks, the Americans have found just...