Kuwaiti's Attitudes Towards the Desert Fox Operation (A field study)
In the second variable, “gender,” a vast difference was found in the fourteenth, fifteenth and nineteenth directions, for when the members of the sample were asked if they expect Iraq to strike Kuwait again, 57% of the females answered affirmatively while only 42% of the males did. In the fifteenth...
| Published in: | DOMES: Digest of Middle East Studies Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 1 - 2 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Spr 2002
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