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Congressman Robert Dornan, a California Republican, is avidly pushing a proposal he feels would benefit both the stricken Kuwaiti economy and the thousands of Vietnamese languishing in camps all over southeast Asia. "The Vietnamese refugees," wrote Dornan to the Emir of Kuwait, "are people in need of a country. Kuwait, on the other hand, is a country in need of / people." Dornan believes that Kuwait's labor pool should not be replenished by Palestinians and Yemenis who, he says, "betrayed their Arab brothers by cheering Saddam's invasion." Dornan, whose Orange County constituency has the largest concentration of Vietnamese...
Nonetheless, Kuwait's recovery could go faster. Part of the problem is that a mere 300,000 of 700,000 Kuwaiti citizens are now living in the country. General Kelly estimates only a third of all civil servants are at their posts. "You don't have the middle management in the ministries," he says. Until recently the government told Kuwaitis displaced by the war to stay away until the country's infrastructure could support them. Last week the policy changed, and Kuwaitis were authorized to start coming home...
...largely unchecked." Since Kuwait's liberation, says the human-rights group, hundreds of people have been arbitrarily arrested, many of them tortured and scores killed. Members of both the armed forces and the underground resistance that flourished during the Iraqi occupation are said to be responsible. Though Kuwaiti officials promised Amnesty International investigators that "those responsible would be brought to justice," the organization accuses the government of according human rights "an extremely low priority...
Sheehan added that when King Hussein of Jordan asked the Kuwaiti Emir's brother how he planned to respond to Iraqi displeasure at the oil-theft, the Prince replied, "We're not going to respond at all. Let them occupy our territory if they will. We're going to have the U.S. come...
...Kuwaiti's benefit to allow Iraq to invade Kuwait," said Cambell, an assistant professor of public policy and international relations at the Kennedy School and a consultant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff...