Arabic News Weekly Edition for Kuwait, 7/14/1997
Weekly Edition, Kuwait - Week of July 14, 1997
- Chinese using UN vote to win Kuwait weapons deal
China is using its vote on extending UN trade sanctions against Iraq to leverage a Kuwaiti purchase of Chinese weapons over US and European competitors, the Washington Post said on July 15. Kuwait, Economics, 7/18/1997 - Washington urges Kuwait to buy American weapons not Chinese
The United State urged Kuwait not to buy Chinese weapons and asked it to buy American ones instead. Kuwait-USA, Politics, 7/17/1997 - Gulf War Syndrome: A sting in the tail
In the U.K. the Labor government stated that a new research program on the mysterious diseases suffered by ex-Gulf war soldiers is to start. Kuwait, Medicine, 7/16/1997 - Kuwait calls for a serious stand to protect Jerusalem
Kuwaiti minister of Justice, Awqaf and Isalmic Affairs Mohammed Dheifallah Shara called on July 13 on Muslims to adopt a "serious stand" to safeguard Jerusalem and its Islamic shrines. Kuwait, Politics, 7/16/1997 - Woman shoots Riggae rapist
An unidentified man was shot to death when he tried to rape a Kuwaiti woman in the Riggae area duing the afternoon of July 12. Kuwait, Local, 7/16/1997