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...unexplained origin killed 55 people and wounded 176. In Cairo, in the meantime, the Egyptian government announced that it had narrowly averted the car bombing of a diplomatic mission, presumed to be the U.S. embassy. And in Kuwait late last week, the ruling Emir, Sheik Jaber al Ahmed al Sabah, narrowly missed death when a car bomb exploded in his motorcade. The driver of the car, who was killed in the attack, apparently was a member of Islamic Jihad, the Shi'ite extremist group...
...Iraq, grudgingly accepted reductions of about 9% each. Two non-OPEC oil producers, Egypt and Mexico, whose petroleum ministers attended some of last week's sessions as observers, promised to help the OPEC effort by making small, symbolic cutbacks of their own. Sheik Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, Kuwait's Prime Minister, praised the accord as a show of unity. Said he: "I have no doubt that by agreeing on this sensitive issue, OPEC members will restore the organization's strength and widely heard voice...
...officials of oil-rich Kuwait, led by Defense Minister Sheik Salem al-Sabah, flew to Moscow last week on a ten-day arms-buying trip. High on the Kuwaiti shopping list were sophisticated SA-8 surface-to-air missiles, as well as shoulder-fired SA-7's, as substitutes for the Stinger anti-aircraft weapons that the Reagan Administration declined to supply last month on the grounds that Congress would veto the deal. The Soviets seemed happy to oblige: the two parties initialed a weapons-purchase agreement, although no details were announced...
...attacks on tankers carrying its oil, has taken out its frustrations on Iraq's Arab allies. With the expansion of the conflict, Kuwait sees the good life it has carved out for itself endangered by a war it does not consider its own. Asserts Foreign Minister Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the state's Foreign Minister: "The war is on our doorstep, and we feel the dangers more than others...
...quality education; Kuwait is the jewel of the gulf in intellectual life and social progress. Its enterprising press is the only one in the gulf that is not government-controlled, and its democratically elected National Assembly has been known to pass legislation against the wishes of the ruling Al-Sabah family. But there are fears in the nation that a war crisis would split the country into religious and political factions, destroying its v alued freedoms...