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...specific ministers from other ministers and the public at large prompted the entire Cabinet to consider resigning at a late-night meeting last Thursday. But the Prime Minister urged them all to work harder instead. "We'll see where things stand in three or four weeks," an aide reports Sheik Saad as saying. Says a Western diplomat: "Considering the public's anger, and all the weapons available, they're lucky they don't have a new regime...
Kuwait makes no secret of its gratitude to the Yanks. Sheik Saud Nasir al- Sabah, Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S., outlined his country's policy in a January letter to Republican Representative Helen Bentley of Maryland. He said Kuwait planned "to award the largest proportion of contracts to U.S. companies, in recognition of the immense sacrifice the people of the United States are making in the liberation of Kuwait...
Some of the Shi'ite resistance members are believed to have been part of a secret organization set up by Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. They were there not to support the ruling family of the Emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, but to topple it. When the Emir fled the country, however, the same Shi'ites, including women in chadors, came out to demonstrate, brandishing photographs of the Emir. "You shouldn't be surprised at this," said a Western diplomat who lived in Kuwait. "In the Middle East, groups can change sides very quickly...
...very complex," said a Western diplomat. "It could take place on the terms of the Kuwaiti resistance." The ruling Sabah family has promised to respect the constitution of 1962 by holding parliamentary elections sometime after liberation. But the exiled opposition and resistance leaders are skeptical. The crown prince, Sheik Saad, has said he may install martial law first...
There is nothing inherently wrong with that, provided the new material is interesting. Most of Ned's additions are. Several are funny, including Ned's attempts as a Service neophyte to tail and protect an oil-rich sheik and his shoplifting wife on spending binges across London's West End. There are tales of betrayal, accidental and cold-blooded. And there is some rough stuff. Ned remembers a beating he had suffered at the hands of a Polish military officer who then, rolling down his sleeves, offered his services as a double agent for the British. Another episode seems...