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Before his arrival at the hotel, Jackson paid a visit to Prince Turki's father-in-law, Sheik Shams El Deen Al-Fassi, who is at New England Deaconess Hospital for observation related to a recent kidney transplant...
While an estimated 300 Iraqi tanks prowled the city, an additional 50 surrounded the Emir's palace and the nearby U.S. embassy. But the Emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, and his family were able to flee to Saudi Arabia by helicopter. Though the invaders had quickly seized Kuwait's radio and television station, a hidden transmitter continued to broadcast exhortations to resist the raiding foreigners and pleas for help from other Arab states. "O Arabs, Kuwait's blood and honor are being violated. Rush to its rescue!" cried a voice thought to be the crown prince...
Kuwait Petroleum has moved even more aggressively than Aramco into refining and marketing. Kuwait bought Gulf's refining and marketing operations in Europe in 1983, and recently launched an exploration and marketing campaign in the Far East, beginning with Thailand. Brags Kuwait's Sheik Ali Khalifa Al- Sabah, who recently switched posts from Oil Minister to Finance Minister: "We will be flying our colors in other countries soon. We expect to find many new opportunities in Eastern Europe, and if an opportunity arises in the U.S., we will look seriously at that...
...activists of the J.K.L.F. who blow up banks and government offices and kill soldiers and civil servants work for the Front's deputy commander, Sheik Hamid, who moves easily through Srinagar. If patrolling soldiers come too close, people in the neighborhood pour into the alleys to shout pro- independence slogans, giving Hamid time to escape. How long will the struggle for secession take? Hamid does not know, but he is pleased with the progress so far. "Our biggest success has been to present the problem to the world," Hamid says. That he has certainly done...
...words, Rafsanjani stoked the rumor mill that has been working at full blast since late February, when the Tehran Times called for the unconditional release of the 18 Western hostages, eight of them Americans, held in Lebanon for as long as five years. The day after the editorial appeared, Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of Hizballah, a Lebanese group that holds some of the victims, added to the hopeful speculation by saying, "We have to think of finding realistic and humanitarian means to free the foreign hostages." After Rafsanjani's statement last week, the Bush Administration cautiously allowed...