Word: sulaiman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe the Emir's cautious reforms are enough to ensure Kuwait's future stability. The country's leaders are listening to good advice, says former Planning Minister Sulaiman Mutawa, but it is imperative that they take the initiative in directing youthful energies into national development projects. The postwar period has given Kuwaitis an opportunity to be admired for political enlightenment as well as envied for their immense wealth. The country has done well at restoring its luxurious way of life, but internal tensions and external threats could yet impede full recovery...
...same time, the government is demanding back rent, and private Kuwaiti landlords are doing the same. Free medical care and public schooling, heretofore rights for expatriates, are history. Private schooling is still possible, but the 50% government subsidy has been ended. "Why should we aid them?" asks Education Minister Sulaiman al-Bader. "Most of them went to school during the occupation where they sang the Iraqi anthem and studied Saddam's speeches. How could our own children learn sitting next to them...
...move to some of the elite's most prominent members -- the echo startles. "Ours was a culture of dependency," says Tareq al-Suwaidan, a leader of the opposition Islamic Trend movement. "We were the pampered product of an affluent society taken to the nth degree," says Minister of Planning Sulaiman Mutawa. "Everywhere," remarks Ali Jaber al-Sabah, a KPC managing director, "there was the spirit of ba'dain, of 'tomorrow.' Any real change was put off. 'Why bother?' people would say. 'We're making money, the country as a company is making a good return. We'll decide the hard...