Word: kuwaiti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Kassouf is perpetually harassed these days. He is manager of the Beirut Restaurant in London's chic Knightsbridge, and this summer his phone is forever ringing with the news that some Kuwaiti sheik or Saudi princess has just left Harrods and was last seen heading for the restaurant for coffee and mouhallabiya. Kassouf and his staff are caught smack in the middle of an Arab invasion that makes the drought-dry London streets look almost like Cairo...
...Secret Service agents waiting outside said that he was the Kuwaiti Ambassador, but it was really Connor Cruise O'Brien, Irish Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, attending a reception in his honor at Eliot House yesterday afternoon...
...government is trying to press Westerners to buy more Iranian oil. Last year, claiming that its profits were being squeezed, the eight-country consortium that buys most of Iran's crude reduced its purchases by 750,000 bbl. a day and turned to cheaper Iraqi, Saudi, and Kuwaiti oil. Premier Hoveida charged the companies with a breach of the 20-year contract with Iran that they signed in 1973. The Shah suggested to the British government (which owns 70% of British Petroleum, the company that leads the consortium) that Iran might not be able...
...sponsored a rebroadcast of the Tricia Nixon-Edward Cox wedding at the request of former White House Aide Charles Colson. Also, a Gulf official revealed that the government of Kuwait asked it to contribute $10,000 to Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon, who is a friend of the Kuwaiti ambassador-but it is not known whether Hatfield actually got any money...
Scarcely three hours after Sadat's convoy sailed through, the first five merchant ships-Kuwaiti, Greek, Chinese, Russian and Yugoslav-moved into the waterway that Sadat has melodramatically described as "a hostage for peace." At the Bitter Lakes, they met the first northbound convoy in eight years-two Iranian destroyers along with cargo ships from Japan, Italy, Pakistan and the Sudan. Israel may suffer economically from the reopening of the Suez since, among other things, it will cut heavily into a profitable overland transfer route, from the Red Sea port of Eilat to Ashkelon, that Israel developed after...