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...Friday evening, March 1, an advance guard of six Kuwaiti Cabinet ministers arrived home to reclaim control of their nation. The news was all bad. The oil-well fires were worse than expected, food and medicine were in short supply, water and electricity were memories. But the prime topic of conversation that night was the "Skip problem...
There never was a real problem, of course. The Kuwaitis themselves have been running the show all along (with disastrous consequences). "Skip is an adviser, a facilitator," says Ali Salem, a Kuwaiti resistance leader who stayed behind when the government fled to exile last August. "It's the government's own incompetence that has made them wary of someone who knows what he's doing. The fact is, we would probably be in better shape today if we had made Gnehm proconsul...
...wake of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, when relations between the U.S. and Syria were restored, it was Gnehm who ran the U.S. interests section in Damascus. When Washington wanted a presence in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, Gnehm was selected. When the sensitive issue of reflagging Kuwaiti oil tankers arose during the Iran-Iraq war, Gnehm was a key negotiator. "He is unassuming and unflappable," says Ali al- Khalifa al-Sabah, Kuwait's Finance Minister, "exactly the kind of guy to deal with Arabs like...
...ambassador to a government without a country, Gnehm found his diplomatic skills tested almost daily at the Sheraton Hotel near Taif, Saudi Arabia, where the Kuwaiti leadership waited out the occupation. Tempers frayed, decisions were postponed, depression was common. A real crisis arose when Iraq started dumping Kuwaiti oil into the gulf in January. The Saudis and Kuwaitis argued over what to do. It took 48 hours of patient haggling, but Gnehm finally got both sides to agree: U.S. bombers would blast Al-Ahmadi oil facility's manifolds to stem the flow. Gnehm's best trick was getting Kuwait...
Last fall those Kuwaiti officials who would hazard a guess at the optimum size of the Palestinian population put the figure at 100,000. "Now surely we can achieve that," says one minister. "We can do it either by denying ( readmission to those who left and deporting some of those who stayed -- or we can kick out some who stayed and replace them with some who left who we are fairly sure can be trusted...