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...region cools off and Saddam refuses to admit weapons inspectors. But Saudi officials told TIME that today the government is unlikely to offer even that much help. Says a Saudi official: "We can't have the U.S. military thinking that anytime they go to war Saudi Arabia is the command-and-control center...
...Saudis believe that the U.S. won't try to go to war without them. But in the war rooms inside the Pentagon and at Central Command in Tampa, Fla., military strategists no longer think the U.S. needs the Saudis to dislodge Saddam. Strategists say a war against Iraq would require as many as 200,000 troops, with forces launching from Kuwait, Turkey and the smaller gulf emirates, reinforced by a massive U.S. Navy and Marine presence. The U.S. already has 10,000 Army troops at Kuwait's Camp Doha, where the Pentagon has stored tanks and other weapons. Some...
...year Adams turned 14, he visited the Yosemite Valley and was given his first camera. As a young man, he worked as a custodian there and took long hikes through the mountains. "I know of no sculpture, painting, or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of the granite cliff ..." he wrote in his autobiography, adding that he wanted to establish Yosemite as "a sanctuary." For much of his life he fought to protect the places he loved, using his photographs as a lobbying tool...
...October Surprise," in which a combined U.S.-British force numbering no more than 50,000 strikes months before any action is anticipated, seizing Baghdad and eliminating Saddam and his regime's command-and-control capability, forcing its collapse before Saddam's weapons of mass destruction can be brought into play...
...bush-league backwater. In fact, no beach in Asia can claim quite the bloodline. Dotted with palaces, steeped in history, Hua Hin celebrates the grandeur of old Siam. You feel it with every creak of the teak floorboards at the old Railway Hotel, built at the Queen's command as a guesthouse for royal parties. Nowadays, it's been reborn as the grandiose 200-room Sofitel Central Hua Hin Resort. Yet the enormous balconies, antique furnishings and white colonial architecture still reflect the unique style of Thailand's first hotel (opened 80 years ago this October). High...