Word: arabian
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...young sergeant is lying prone in the sand, the butt of his M-16 rifle tucked against his shoulder. It is late afternoon in the Saudi Arabian desert. The sergeant's squad is manning a defensive line while several officers scout the top of a nearby hill. The officers are deciding where to position antitank weapons that could turn the road below into a shooting gallery if an Iraqi armored column moves along...
...Saddam may be betting that tensions and disagreements will develop between European capitals and Washington, between the Western and Arab states. International resolve could well weaken, or the Arab man in the street might grow restive under the heavy foreign presence. After a year in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula, the huge army taking shape there is likely to be run down and frustrated...
...that is an optimistic scenario. Continuing large price boosts, especially if produced by a protracted war on the Arabian Peninsula, could bring what a government official calls a "deep, deep recession." Worse yet, it would be an inflationary recession. Oil-price increases push up the cost of not only gasoline and heating fuel but also everything else made from petrochemicals: detergents, paint, ink, plastics and anything packaged in them, to name only a few. Anthony Vignola, chief economist of the Kidder Peabody brokerage firm, figures that if the recent rise of crude oil to almost...
...true in the age of intercontinental missiles as it was in Napoleon's day. The hardest part of any war is moving fighting forces into the field and supplying their gargantuan needs. When the U.S. decided last week to draw "a line in the sand" of the Arabian Peninsula, it took on an immense logistical task. Keeping troops supplied with water in the desert's 120 degrees heat will be as vital as keeping them supplied with ammunition...
...concert to tame his renegade ambitions. The U.N. Security Council voted without dissent for record, tough economic sanctions -- mandatory for all U.N. members -- aimed at strangling Saddam until he released Kuwait from his grip. As added encouragement, and to dissuade the Iraqi bully from pushing any farther into the Arabian peninsula, various navies began to crowd the Persian Gulf as well as the Mediterranean, Red and Arabian seas. They were well placed to enforce a blockade of Iraq...