Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...human-rights organizations are quarreling among themselves. Middle East Watch, for example, contends that the recent report by Amnesty International detailing human-rights abuses in Kuwait is overdrawn. But the problem is one of degree only. When Middle East Watch says Amnesty's high-range estimate of perhaps a thousand murders exaggerates the toll by about 400, that still leaves 600 victims of Iraqi brutality. And no one disputes that Iraq has regularly tortured Kuwaitis. Again, the only difference involves numbers...
Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams stirred yet another accounting storm last week by declaring that as of Nov. 29, five allies that had agreed to kick in $6.7 billion in cash and kind by Dec. 31 had so far ponied up only $3.6 billion. Two-thirds of that came from Kuwait, which had promised $2.5 billion and paid exactly that much. (Critics nonetheless point out that the Kuwaiti financial empire is worth an estimated $100 billion.) By Williams' figures, Japan had pledged $2 billion but had paid only $476 million; Germany had paid a mere $337 million of a promised...
...sure, the Soviet-American rapprochement began long before the invasion of Kuwait. "Obviously, our ability to cooperate in the gulf is part of an overall understanding with the Soviets," says a top U.S. official. "If we weren't getting cooperation, it would have a bearing on a whole range of issues." By drawing back the Iron Curtain without bloodshed, undertaking democratic reform at home and supporting a number of U.S. policies abroad, Gorbachev has created a sort of personality cult in Western diplomatic circles. American officials claim to support policies, not politicians, but in private there is widespread fear that...
...ashamed to say I did, several times. Imad had no money. I remembered the Anne Frank story. Her family was hidden for years and then betrayed. In Kuwait we heard so many stories of betrayal. Group members who ran off with cars or stole money or panicked...
WORLD: A country in exile, Kuwait plans to build a new and different nation...