World IN BRIEF : KUWAIT : Iraqis Again Cross Disputed Border
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
More than 500 Iraqis crossed into Kuwait to protest work on a trench the emirate is digging along the disputed border, U.N. observers said. The U.S. State Department condemned the border crossing, the second such incursion in a week. A Kuwaiti contractor working on the trench fired a shot in the air after the Iraqis started throwing stones, said Abullatif Kabbaj, a spokesman for the U.N. A U.N. officer monitoring the demonstration was slightly injured by a stone.
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