Word: kuwaiti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...timidity, deriding Bush's entourage as the "Keystone Kops" and denouncing a "total lack of planning." More surprising were the Democrats who lined up to criticize the Administration's caution: in the past, many of them had espoused anti-interventionist sentiments in Nicaragua and toward the Navy escorts of Kuwaiti oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq war. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts called the episode "a black mark on our diplomacy and our values." Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin declared, "We should go in and capture Noriega." Aspin differentiated between military intervention and "a snatch. All I want is Noriega...
...them Iranians, died during the violent clashes, leading to a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries the following year. Last week the Saudis demonstrated their resolve to punish disrupters of the hajj. In the largest public execution in recent years, swordsmen in Mecca publicly beheaded 16 Kuwaiti citizens for detonating bombs in Mecca last July...
That the Palestinians will accept a state only as a stage toward the eventual control of Israel has been confirmed by PLO statements made after Arafat's recent initiatives. Arafat's deputy, Saleh' Khalef, recently told a Kuwaiti newspaper, "the establishment of a Palestininan state in any part of Palestine has as its goal the establishment of a Palestinian state in all of Palestine." The chairman of the Palestinian National Council, Sheikh Abdul Hanid el Haya, agreed, "We should take and then demand more...
...relations with the Arab world were further complicated last week when, much to the surprise and embarrassment of the White House, the Senate voted to deny Kuwait sophisticated Maverick air-to-surface missiles just days before the Kuwaiti Prime Minister, Crown Prince Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, arrived in Washington. Kuwait would like to buy $l.9 billion worth of arms, including 40 F-18 jet fighters, of which the Mavericks are considered an essential feature...
Despite their ordeal, all the hostages were found to be sufficiently fit to travel home to Kuwait. Kuwaiti officials privately claimed that the freeing of the captives was a vindication of their country's principled refusal to accede to the hijackers' chief demand, the release of 17 pro-Iranian terrorists convicted of taking part in attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait in 1983. But the hijackers' safe passage out of Algeria not only prevents them from being brought to justice for killing two passengers in Larnaca but also frees them to commit terror anew...