Stateless Arabs Mass Across Kuwait Border

More than 3,000 stateless Arabs massing on Iraq’s border with Kuwait threatened to use force to back their demands to return to the northern Persian Gulf emirate that Baghdad’s troops invaded a decade ago. “We have carried the olive branch for 10 years . . . but time passes rapidly with no hope of a solution to our issue and [no] hope for a return to our country and relatives in Kuwait,” a memorandum addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said. Hundreds of people, including some who claim to be Kuwaiti, pitched tents by Border Post 92 in the Iraqi section of a U.N.-patrolled demilitarized zone demanding that they be allowed to return to Kuwait.