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Everyone, meanwhile, learns to scrounge. Supplies have a way of not keeping pace with the soldiers: the technical term for material with no forwarding address is "frustrated cargo." This makes for frustrated soldiers, who must master the time-honored military art of swapping what they have for what they need: long underwear, cigarettes, air filters, a forklift. The local Saudi merchants are not much help. Soldiers complain that prices double and triple between visits to the small local shops. A pack of Snickers bars has jumped from $6 to $15 -- the tax, say the shopkeepers, for doing business...
Native to the Caspian Sea region of the Soviet Union, the zebra mussel spread into the canals, rivers and lakes of Western Europe more than 150 years ago. Then sometime in 1986, biologists speculate, a European cargo ship bound for Sarnia, Ont., emptied some of the water it carried as ballast into Lake St. Clair, between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Biologists first spotted a few zebra mussels in the area three years ago -- and the race...
Other Administration officials went still further by suggesting that the U.S. would send an unarmed cargo ship to resupply the embassy in Kuwait City, where 27 diplomats are reportedly down to their last month's worth of canned tuna and rice. If Iraq tried to interfere with the mission, that might provide a pretext for massive military retaliation. Saddam's reaction was to put his commanders on "extreme alert" in order to "thwart the perfidious intentions of the United States and its allies to launch an attack in the coming few days...
...aircraft, but Congress, seeking to protect jobs in 34 states, voted to spend $603 million to keep the program alive. The trouble-plagued Strategic Defense Initiative survived with a $2.9 billion appropriation, $1.6 billion less than the Administration requested. While the Pentagon sought $1.7 billion for six C-17 cargo planes to improve the airlift capability that had been inadequate in the gulf deployment, Congress approved only $540 million. As for sea lift, which was also deficient, an extra $250 million was committed toward an unspecified number of faster ships...
...ensure that the vans were driven with their murderous cargo into the checkpoints, British authorities said, I.R.A. gunmen held the drivers' families hostage in their homes, while other I.R.A. men followed the vans at close shooting range, veering off just before the explosions. A third human bomb intended to blow up simultaneously at a British army barracks failed to detonate. Said Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke: "It is hard to imagine anything more evil...