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Some reservists face financial hardship because their military pay will come nowhere near matching their civilian incomes. Though some employers are making up the difference, many are not; their only legal obligation is to hold a reservist's job open for his or her return. Reservists, however, can have the interest rate on mortgage and other debts reduced to 6% under the 50-year-old Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief...
Despite the hardships, there seems to be little grumbling of the sort that attended previous reserve call-ups. Like the regular military, today's reserves are an all-volunteer force whose members joined for various reasons: extra income, a chance for free training in a specialty allied to their civilian jobs, or travel (reserve units have trained with regulars as far away as Egypt). Some may have joined thinking they would never be called, but most have long accepted that they might be. Now that it has happened, many view their service as a necessary repayment for whatever benefits they...
Israelis would prefer to have real gas masks now, and are angrily debating whether the government should release its huge civilian stockpiles. The issue is dividing the leadership. "The masks were intended for these times," insists Foreign Minister David Levy. Shamir and Arens apparently disagree, and have postponed a final decision, fearing that any such move would cause panic or convince Baghdad that Israel is preparing to attack...
...fight against Israel," says Youssef, a refugee in Saudi Arabia. An escaped Bedouin woman says, "The soldiers told us they were afraid that their families would be killed in Iraq if they refused to fight." If troop morale is low, it is not surprising that some soldiers are donning civilian clothes and trying to blend into the Kuwaiti population, while others have attempted to escape to Saudi Arabia...
...officials put a good deal of pressure on Doe to go through the motions of democracy. They financed a commission to write a constitution for a return to civilian rule in 1985. They urged Doe to let opposition parties campaign against him in elections. But when early returns showed Doe losing heavily, he seized all the ballots and announced, two weeks later, that he had won 50.5% of the vote...