Word: borderers
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Some 27,000 Kurds, driven from Iraq two years ago by Saddam Hussein's poison- gas attacks, still live in camps on the Iraqi-Turkish border. The U.S. has been urging Turkey to assimilate these refugees, but Turkey, which has 8 million Kurds (out of a total population of 57 million), is reluctant to take in more. A Kurdish separatist movement is simmering in Turkey, and the border camps contain experienced fighters. To demonstrate its concern -- and to set an example -- Washington plans to allow about 1,500 Kurds into the U.S., probably beginning in January, with more to follow...
...growing trade in goods manufactured in Mexico or assembled at factories ! along the U.S. border, known as maquiladora plants, is likely to rise even more if Salinas succeeds in his boldest gambit yet: signing a free-trade agreement with the U.S., a topic that is expected to dominate talks between Salinas and President Bush scheduled to be held in Monterrey later this month. At present, most of the 2,200 maquiladoras are U.S.-owned and employ 560,000 Mexicans who assemble parts manufactured north of the border. A free-trade agreement would encourage more foreign investment, thus providing additional jobs...
...question is whether the Arabs would carry the fight across the border into Kuwait. The Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Sultan, said early in the crisis that his country could not be used as a launching pad for an attack on Iraq without King Fahd's approval. Commanders of the Egyptian and Syrian units have said their troops are deployed to defend Saudi Arabia and not for offensive operations. While a United Nations resolution authorizing force against Saddam Hussein might galvanize the Islamic forces, for some of them the thought of killing their "Arab brothers" is still a strong deterrent...
Since the Arab armies are positioned between the Kuwaiti border and the more than 200,000 American, British and French troops in Saudi Arabia, their commitment to an offensive would be no small matter. "The Arab forces complicate Saddam's problems if he chooses to go south," says retired U.S. Army Lieut. General William Odom, now an analyst with the Hudson Institute in Washington. "They complicate ours if we choose to go north...
...northern Iraq met in Europe to discuss just what a postwar Iraq might look like. In their view, an independent Kurdistan could be carved out of Iraqi territory, and a good bit of the northern part of the country could be ceded to Turkey. There could also be significant "border adjustments" between Iraq and its neighbors Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, none of them in Iraq's favor...