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When he thinks about it at all, which he tries hard not to do, Ali Basa can remember in detail exactly when his luck ran out. It was shortly after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 28, at a point in the Kuwaiti desert about 14 miles north of the Saudi border. On eight previous smuggling runs, the midday heat had protected Basa's overland enterprise. The Iraqis, everyone knew, were creatures of habit who invariably shunned the harsh...
...Marlin Fitzwater said the U.S. was in a "slowdown," while President Bush called the economy "sluggish." Meanwhile, the Commerce Department reported that the GNP grew a weak 1.7% in the July-September period, down slightly from the previous estimate. Most of the growth came before Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug...
...long-term gulf stability is the Administration's primary goal, then last week's highlight was Bush's assertion that the "status-quo ante will not be enough." Since Aug. 8 the President's stated objective has been to get Iraq out of Kuwait. Period. Now Bush has publicly indicated what he has told allied leaders privately: he will not allow Iraq's awesome ability to wage war to remain intact...
...Bush has ruled out a territorial compromise -- the Kuwaiti islands Iraq covets, for example -- and he repeated that stance to the exiled Kuwaiti Emir in a phone call shortly after his press conference. But the Kuwaitis themselves had been willing to discuss leasing some territory to Iraq before the Aug. 2 invasion. Such a deal might still be possible if, say, Saddam were willing to downsize his military and destroy his weapons of mass destruction...
...planners must draft their scenarios despite all the uncertainty, and on the U.S. side they have been at it since a few days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2. Specifics of the plans are military secrets, but enough is known to allow some educated guesses about how a war in the desert would be fought...