Word: kuwaiti
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...England, for instance, can simply refuse an unwanted alien investor the right to obtain British currency. France requires official authorization for all investments above 1 million francs ($222,000). The only major Western nation with virtually no controls is West Germany. Even after the recent Arab purchase by Kuwaiti interests of 14% of Daimler-Benz AG, there seems to be little chance of a change in the laws...
...president of the local Palestinian Students Federation, and served in the Egyptian army during the 1956 war. Later he moved to Kuwait, where he worked in the Ministry of Public Works and operated a profitable contracting company on the side. A co-founder of Al Fatah, he quit his Kuwaiti jobs in 1964 to devote his full-time energies to the cause...
Syria also profits from its geographic position at the "waist" of the Middle East, between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Lebanese and Kuwaiti trucks, among others, carry goods from the port of Beirut through Syria to merchants in the gulf sheikdoms. In addition to its own growing oil revenues, Syria gets an estimated $125 million in fees from the oil pipeline from Iraq to Banias and the Tapline from Saudi Arabia to the Lebanese port of Sidon...
...odyssey," as one Arab commentator described it, ended in the Persian Gulf emirate of Kuwait. Again airport authorities refused landing permission. Under threat from the terrorists, Captain Joe Kroese brought in his plane anyway on a secondary runway. After an hour of haggling between the terrorists and Kuwaiti officials over conditions of surrender, the twelve hostages and crewmen quietly walked down the ramp, followed a short time later by their captors. "We are Palestinian Arabs, not criminals," declared one of them. "The criminals are the ones who bomb Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon...
...regard either Saudi Arabia or Kuwait as a threat to Israel. That view is not necessarily shared by Israelis, many of whom feel that the planes could easily be loaned to a more militant Arab power, like Egypt. But in the State Department's view, the Saudi and Kuwaiti interests are focused primarily on protecting their oil-rich territories against possible attack by other Middle Eastern states. Soviet-armed Iraq, for instance, has already scared tiny Kuwait with border incursions. But why should the U.S., which carefully avoided trying to fill the military vacuum left by Britain...