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Last month, Polish workers returning home from Iraq reported that about 35 Americans were brought to the chemical plant in Al-Qaim on Aug. 17 under guard. It was not known whether any Westerners are still being held as human shields at the plant...
...version of Murphy's Law. As Saddam Hussein intensified his war of words against Kuwait, she decided to fly from her bureau in Cairo to the Persian Gulf emirate for a firsthand look. Thus she was the only American reporter in Kuwait when Iraqi troops invaded on Aug. 2. Her calm, lucid eyewitness reports -- some printed without a byline to disguise the fact that she was there -- will surely be among the prime candidates for journalism prizes next spring. As Murphy wrote in one dispatch, she had "a front-row seat for witnessing a small nation being crushed...
Murphy, who moved into the apartment of some American friends to avoid Iraqi troops in her hotel lobby, was initially able to tour the city by taxi with two European journalists. Some diplomats, including Belgians, provided facilities for filing stories. On Aug. 14 some Europeans made an early-morning run for Saudi Arabia; Murphy, who was staying across town, could not join them. Two days later, Iraq ordered all American and British citizens to report to hotels and register with Iraqi forces. "I did make a couple of taxi trips after that," she said, "but it was pretty nerve-racking...
...could have made a huge return shorting the stodgy Dow Jones average, which fell from 3000 to 2500 between July 17 and Aug. 23. But that was the least of it. Most stocks dropped much more than that. Boeing was down from 60 1/4 to 42 1/2. Disney was down from 131 1/4 to 95 1/8. Golden Nugget, from...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 500 adult Americans taken for TIME on Aug. 23 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus...