Throughout the 1980s, Somalia received economic aid from conservative, wealthy oil-exporting states of Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Whatever Glaspie did or did not say in her interview with Saddam, the Iraqis assumed that the United States had invested too much in building relations with Iraq over the 1980s to sacrifice them for Kuwait.

Tensions between Bahrain and Iran had already been raised in the summer of 2007, when Hossein Shariatmadari, an Advisor to Iran ’ s supreme leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and editor of the Iranian newspaper, Kayan, called for Bahrain to be incorporated into Iran as its 14th province – a stance that echoed Saddam Hussein ’ s designs on Kuwait in the late 1980s.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar followed in the mid-1970s, but Israel, Lebanon and Cyprus continued to broadcast in black and white until the early 1980s.

In Kuwait, it was released in the early 1980s in English with Arabic subtitles.

Chapter three follows the rise of Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the war with Iran during the 1980s, and the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, states such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar amassed large surpluses of petrodollars which they could not invest in their own countries.

The Kuwait Investment Authority acquired an indirect 34 % holding in the Company in 1975, increased to 100 % in 1980, chiefly to acquire the property assets on the south bank of the Thames, which were sold to St Martins Property Group in the early 1980s.

Plans to shoot a made-for-video Confessions film in the 1980s also came to nothing, as did a proposed 1992 film, " Confessions of a Squaddie ", which was proposed with action due to take place in post-Gulf War Kuwait.

In the 1980s, with the increasing urban regeneration of the Thames Corridor and nearby London Docklands, the area was acquired by the St Martin's Property Corporation the real estate arm of the State of Kuwait, as part of their ' London Bridge City ' development, stretching from London Bridge easterly to English Grounds where it is terminated by the Southwark Crown Court site and bound to the South by Tooley Street.

Early dwarfs, even into the 1970s and 1980s, had fearful and sometimes aggressive temperaments.

Hezbollah was largely formed with the aid of the Ayatollah Khomeini's followers in the early 1980s in order to spread Islamic revolution and follows a distinct version of Islamic Shi ' a ideology ( Valiyat al-faqih or Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists ) developed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the " Islamic Revolution " in Iran.

In the 1980s, financial problems caused by massive expenditures in the eight-year war with Iran and damage to oil export facilities by Iran led the government to implement austerity measures, borrow heavily, and later reschedule foreign debt payments ; Iraq suffered economic losses of at least $ 80 billion from the war.

The 1980s and 1990s saw an influx of refugees from the Soviet war in Afghanistan into Karachi ; they were followed in smaller numbers by refugees escaping from Iran.

Oliver North came into the public spotlight as a result of his participation in the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s, in which he claimed partial responsibility for the sale of weapons via intermediaries to Iran, with the profits being channeled to the Contras in Nicaragua.

Saddam borrowed tens of billions of dollars from other Arab states and a few billions from elsewhere during the 1980s to fight Iran, mainly to prevent the expansion of Shiite radicalism.

The Reagan administration gave Saddam roughly $ 40 billion in aid in the 1980s to fight Iran, nearly all of it on credit.

His presidency led to the breaking off of a Syrian-Iraqi unification, which had been sought under his predecessor Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and would lead to the Iran – Iraq War starting in the 1980s.

* The Gulf War – Iraq was left in severe debt after the 1980s war with Iran.

Iran used the M109 in the Iran – Iraq War, in the 1980s.

However, due to increasingly stringent sanctions imposed by the international community as a result of the country's nuclear program, oil exports have halved, and Iraq has overtaken Iran in oil output for the first time since the 1980s.

Iran – Iraq relations have been turbulent since the war they fought in the 1980s.

* Criticism of Israel came from the United Nations, the European Community and the United States as well as the Arab states-which during the 1980s were concentrated on the Iran – Iraq War.

The intervention, along with other events, such as the Iranian revolution and the US hostage stand-off that accompanied it, the Iran – Iraq War, the 1982 Lebanon War, the escalating tensions between Pakistan and India, contributed to making the Middle East and South Asia extremely violent and turbulent regions during the 1980s.

Throughout the 1980s the General Command actively cooperated with the nascent Hezbollah paramilitary group ( made mostly of Shia Muslims ) dedicated to armed struggle against Israel, as well as with Syria and Iran, both of whom fund and arm Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

There was an increased influx into Turlock in the 1970s following political strife in Iraq and in the 1980s following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.

In the 1980s, it was accused of illegal shipments to Iran.

Hussein was internationally known for his use of chemical weapons in the 1980s against Iranian and Kurdish civilians during and after the Iran – Iraq War.

The Soviets went on to develop an improved air-droppable assault gun, the ASU-85, which served through the 1980s, while their SU-100 remained in service with Communist countries, including Vietnam and Cuba, years after WW2.

Most of the other light aircraft acquired by the FABF in the 1970s and 1980s have also now been retired along with the Mi-4 helicopters, but some recent acquisitions have been made, including a Beechcraft King Air, a Piper PA-34 Seneca, a CEAPR Robin light training aircraft, and a single Air Tractor AT-802 aerial sprayer aircraft for spraying insecticides, purchased after the northern part of the country suffered heavy crop damage from a 2004 invasion of swarming locusts.

In December 2011, Rodrigo Carreras became the Costa Rican ambassador to Israel for the second time, after his posting there in the 1980s.

Love initially began several music projects in the 1980s, first forming Sugar Babydoll, and then having a brief stint as a singer in Faith No More after " demanding " them to let her be in their band.

Astrophysicist and science writer John Gribbin describes it as having fallen from primacy after the 1980s.

( jälkeen Kristuksen, after Christ ) were largely used until the 1980s but have been mostly replaced during the last couple of decades with terms eaa.

Popularity of CATV started in the 1980s after the Marcos administration.

The New York Giants for portions of the 1980s, carried from head coach Ray Perkins to Bill Parcells, wore white at home against the Cowboys but after a period of time stopped.

Gilson sold his production laboratory to a Japanese firm in the 1980s, but production has ceased since ; so did Chatham's, after the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

By the 1980s, the economic viability of the islands was in doubt, but after the Falklands War there was a new commitment from the United Kingdom government.

As a result, in part, of the popular and commercial resurgence of punk in the late 1980s and after, with the growing popularity of such bands as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Green Day and The Offspring, a number of other punk zines have appeared, such as Punk Planet, Razorcake, Tail Spins, Sobriquet, Profane Existence and Slug and Lettuce.

The IEEE-754 standard was created in the early 1980s after word sizes of 32 bits ( or 16 or 64 ) had been generally settled upon.

However, as more Westerners were able to view the original version of the film ( especially after its availability on home video during the late 1980s ), and gain access to Japanese publications about the film, the myth was dispelled.

West Germany started to take action after the Green Party took seats in Parliament in the 1980s.

From 1969 until the late 1980s, Hee Haw was produced by Yongestreet Productions, named after Yonge Street, a major thoroughfare in Toronto.

But, as offensive play has improved since the late 1980s, particularly the use of counter-attacks ( fast breaks ) after a failed attack from the other team, goal-scoring has increased.

House music, after enjoying significant underground and club-based success in Chicago from the early 1980s onwards, emerged into the UK mainstream pop market in the mid-to-late 80s.

Greater London's population declined steadily in the decades after World War II, from an estimated peak of 8. 6 million in 1939 to around 6. 8 million in the 1980s.

In addition, the presence of US banks, manufacturers, and service providers expanded, especially after the industrial and financial sector reforms of the 1980s.

In addition, after centuries of net emigration, from the 1980s Italy has experienced large-scale immigration for the first time in modern history.

Hoshino Gakki's relationship with Frank Zappa's former guitarist Steve Vai resulted in the introduction of the Ibanez JEM and the Ibanez Universe models and after the earlier successes of the Roadstar and Iceman models in the late 1970s / early 1980s, Hoshino Gakki entered the superstrat market with the RG series which were a lower priced version of the Ibanez JEM model.

A classic example is the well-known " you have two cows " joke — after circulating in other media throughout the 1980s, it seems to have first appeared on the Internet in 1993 with simple descriptions of communism, capitalism, and socialism.

Some believe this may be due to deliberate price fixing by those who bought the stockpile echoing the warnings from the Japan Wildlife Conservation Society on price-fixing after sales to Japan in 1997, and monopoly given to traders who bought stockpiles from Burundi and Singapore in the 1980s.

An early visual programming system, Max, was modelled after analog synthesizer design and has been used to develop real-time music performance software since the 1980s.

Its GDP per capita soared by 351 % in the 1970s, and after only a slight decline of 30 % in the 1980s, grew once again by 36 % in the 1990s.