Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Some of those foreigners actively helped the resistance. "We taught them how to make homemade Claymore mines and various antipersonnel devices," says Joseph Lammerding, an American engineer who worked for the Kuwaiti military. "You would take quarter sticks of TNT, which are commonly used in oil drilling, dip them in glue and roll them in buckshot," he explains. "Then you would set them off in the middle of a group of Iraqis. To make homemade plastic explosives, you would cook a mixture of diesel oil and powdered soap...
...time of Saddam's invasion, the cleavage between Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis had worsened considerably. Foreigners account for more than 60% of Kuwait's population and more than 80% of its work force. "Oil exacerbated the underlying tensions," says Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian political sociology professor at the American University in Cairo. "The fantastic wealth made all Kuwaitis keener on emphasizing their Kuwaitiness because being Kuwaiti meant enormous privileges...
...most significant developments has been a major shift in attitude by several international corporations. Companies that in the past had an adversative relationship with conservation groups have begun to take actions that are more than public relations. Following the lead of H.J. Heinz's StarKist Seafood Co., major American tuna canners voluntarily decided to stop buying fish from fleets that carelessly kill dolphins and other marine mammals. McDonald's addressed a major solid-waste problem by switching from polystyrene to paper wrappings for its fast foods. Conoco decided to use double-hulled tankers in an effort to reduce the risk...
...Pentagon brought these questions to the fore last week by disclosing that it would shortly be asking Congress for a pile of new funds -- perhaps $20 billion -- to maintain the American forces confronting Iraq. Word promptly leaked that the total tab might be as high as $30 billion in fiscal 1991, which began on Oct. 1. That would be double the estimate of $15 billion made only two months...
...tricky too. One problem, which also crops up with other allies, is how to figure contributions in kind. Riyadh has given the U.S. an open-ended commitment to supply all the fuel, water and electric needs of the U.S. forces operating there, but how should oil supplied to American troops be valued -- at the price it might fetch if sold on the world market or at Saudi production costs, which may be as low as 50 cents per bbl. of crude? By some estimates, Saudi crisis-related expenses in the first five months have totaled $22 billion, far more than...