Word: qatar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...push Israel into meaningful peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Those looking for a symbol of the fractious, anti-American climate that has emboldened Saddam need look no further than Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's lonely visit to the Middle Eastern economic summit held last weekend in Doha, Qatar. Despite U.S. pressure on Arab states to attend, America's closest Arab allies--Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Morocco--all refused to show up. So embittered was the atmosphere that in the end Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy declined to attend...
...fighters and other attack planes. Pentagon sources considered it likely; State Department officials weren't so sanguine. Heavy B-52 bombers will be based on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, a British territory on loan to the U.S., and B-1s will probably fly out of Bahrain, Qatar or the United Arab Emirates. Says Army General Hugh Shelton, the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "We're confident that we have the capability to carry out whatever we are asked...
...only question now is whether Madeleine Albright's whistle-stop weekend tour of surrounding Gulf states ? Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia ? has drummed up any support for U.S. action to punish Iraq. Without it, Saddam will turn an air-strike into the greatest pro-Iraq propaganda...
...didn't he--faint, that is? That was the question surrounding YASSER ARAFAT last week after an Egyptian official leaked word that the Palestinian leader had passed out during a contretemps with the Foreign Minister of Qatar while in Cairo. Arafat's office says no, but a Palestinian official, speaking to TIME, confirmed the blackout, saying Arafat's lips turned blue and his eyes rolled into the back of his head before a doctor came to revive him. The collapse occurred as Arafat tried to convince HAMAD BIN JASSIM that Qatar should cancel a Middle East economic conference to protest...
...Ashongs were still in Qatar when the Gulf War broke out. Their work prevented them from leaving the country, and the kids spent much of their time in a tiny bedroom with sealed windows and gas masks...