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...quench their thirst and stave off dehydration, U.S. troops in the 120 degreesF Saudi Arabian desert must drink up to 8 gal. of water a day. Much of the vital liquid comes from local bottled well water that is cumbersome to transport...
Billowing plumes of dust high into the air, a column of heavy tanks rumbles across the flat Arabian desert just south of the Kuwaiti frontier. The M-60s are American-made, but their crews are Egyptian. Five miles away, a cluster of British-built Chieftain tanks are poised with their guns pointed toward the border. This detachment is part of a Kuwaiti army brigade that managed to escape the Iraqi invaders. "Our mission," says Colonel Ibrahim Al-Wasmi, the unit's deputy commander, "is to return to Kuwait...
...Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '44 on the professor who will fill a chair at the Med School endowed by Saudi Arabian Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. Turki has been esconced in the Charles Hotel since July under the protection of Harvard and Cambridge police and, according to news services, has a long and checkered history of encounters with law enforcement officials...
...money, Harvard's got the time. That's the lesson of Saudi Arabian Prince Turki and his entourage's ongoing stay in luxurious quarters at the Charles Hotel. Despite the prince's history of alleged slavery and assault on police officers--a history that led Florida officials to ask that he be deported from the United States--Harvard schmoozed the billionaire Prince until he endowed a professorship in immunology at the Medical School...
...several occasions, police officers protecting the family of a Saudi Arabian prince have ordered children playing in a Cambridge park to leave parts of the facility, Cambridge residents said last week...