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Most of our people were on the move. Cairo bureau chief Dean Fischer interviewed General Norman Schwarzkopf at his Riyadh headquarters and recalled the time last September when the general told him the terrain was ideal for % tank maneuvers. From Cairo, senior correspondent James Wilde reported a mood of apprehension mixed with relief; during the ground war the city was "tense to bursting." Not all our correspondents have war-zone stories to tell. Robert T. Zintl, whose job has been to coordinate the flow of all briefings and pool reports, found the enemy, and it was Arabic street signs...
Schwarzkopf saluted it as well. If he failed to dwell on Egyptian and Syrian exploits, the omission was probably political. Damascus had all along assiduously downplayed its coalition role because of simmering pro-Iraq sentiments among the Syrian public. Cairo marked Saddam's defeat with red- letter newspaper headlines, but President Hosni Mubarak remained notably mum. Egypt's domestic opposition to the war was milder than Syria's, but explosions of anti-U.S. protest broke out at several Egyptian universities last week. Mubarak also faces a relatively long engagement in the gulf: while all the Arab armies had forsworn...
With war costs to pay off and with low oil prices, the victorious gulf states are not much interested in sharing their wealth. At a recent meeting in Cairo, they asserted the necessity of "respecting the sovereignty of each Arab country over its own natural resources." Translation: Don't covet your neighbor's oil. The statement was evidence of just how worn the ideal of Arab unity is -- the notion that all Arabs are one nation so the gulf oil belongs...
When I arrived back in Moscow, I reported the results of the trip to Gorbachev. My main conclusion: the barometer of the situation was clearly & pointing to a military solution. The President instructed me to continue the mission, and I left for Cairo, Damascus, Riyadh and Baghdad...
...deputized as trip- wire forces to be stationed throughout the region. One will be composed of gulf and Saudi forces; the other will be primarily Egyptian. "Egypt has the experience, and it is willing," says a Kuwaiti aide to the exiled Emir. "In return, we will significantly help Cairo with its financial problems, and we will do the same for Syria...