Royal, unchanging faces.
On June 1, 1998, Kuwait's crown prince and prime minister, Sheikh Saad Al-Sabah, pledged to push through long-awaited reforms, but Kuwaitis have heard such promises before. In 1991, after the ejection of the Iraqi occupying force, Kuwait's princely rulers reluctantly succumbed to U.S. pressure to t...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 347; no. 8071; pp. 46 - 47 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
June 6 1998
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