1.   We had a fleet of about eight hundred ships, that is, in Kuwait, which is erm much more than any other gulf state at the time.

2.   Another way to blunt the Iraqi threat is to push them back from Kuwait by establishing a buffer zone around the tiny gulf state.

3.   Breaking with its larger neighbor, Saudi Arabia, Qatar also became the first gulf state to establish open trade relations with Israel.

4.   In the first major deal between Israel and a gulf state, Israel agreed last week to buy liquified natural gas produced by Enron Corp. in Qatar.

5.   Kuwait has allowed a Jordanian representative into the oil-rich gulf state to reopen an embassy there.

6.   Last weekend the gulf state of Qatar canceled plans to send a team to Israel for discussion of joint projects.

7.   Ochoa, a native of the gulf coast state of Veracruz, was shot at close range in the head and thigh.

8.   The gulf Arab states threatened to recognize the south during the war, and the north charged Saudi Arabia with financing the south.

9.   A four-member delegation from the Swiss headquarters of the federation, known as FIFA, flew to this gulf state Saturday to inspect the facilities.

10.   A four-member delegation from the Swiss headquarters FIFA flew to this gulf state Saturday to inspect the facilities.