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...gulf war strategy. Like any good mediator, the Bush Administration is determined to get both Arabs and Israelis to the bargaining table without appearing to favor either side. "If we're willing to underwrite an economic program to settle the occupied territories, we don't exactly look like a neutral party," said a senior Administration official...
Last week a general strike closed the island's banks, stores and international airport. Tens of thousands of mourners turned out for the funeral of some of those killed, and the previously neutral National Council of Churches joined the campaign...
...during the Kuwaiti government's exile have been implemented, the single one being pursued with a vengeance concerns Kuwait's 400,000 Palestinians and the approximately 100,000 other foreigners who hail from what everyone calls "the bad countries," the nations whose leaders supported Saddam Hussein or who remained neutral. To the best of Kuwait's ability, almost all of these expatriates will be driven out or refused permission to return. It does not matter if they were born in Kuwait. The Arab way holds: you are what your parents or grandparents are. If they came from Iraq or Jordan...
...finding ruses to communicate with safety. "Everybody we talked to was afraid of being killed," says Gwynne. In hotels from Washington to Abu Dhabi, Beaty often had to leave his room in the early morning to return calls from telephone booths. He persuaded several sources to meet him on neutral ground in Casablanca, and learned more details there while dining on fish and rice in a Bedouin's tent. Beaty came right up against the sinister underside of the story when a man from the black network invited himself into Beaty's hotel room in Abu Dhabi and threatened...
LANGUAGE A new dictionary is gender neutral but not word perfect...