Word: desertic
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...sybarite who virtually abandoned his desert kingdom for a career of overseas carousing. He drank Scotch freely, ordered caviar by the pound, attended the raunchy shows in the nightclubs of Beirut so frequently that he knew all the leading belly dancers by name, engaged in myriad liaisons with women (he is said to have paid the wife of a Lebanese businessman $100,000 a year to make herself available) and, if old stories are to be believed, gambled away $1 million in the casinos of Monte Carlo during a single weekend...
...irony is that the "new truths" of the plains are as old as the crumbling diaries of the first explorers. Those early wanderers lumped the plains into something labeled the "great American desert." In 1931 Texas historian Walter Prescott Webb wrote, "East of the Mississippi, civilization stood on three legs -- land, water and timber; west of the Mississippi, not one but two of these legs were withdrawn -- water and timber -- and civilization was left on one leg -- land. It is small wonder that it toppled over in temporary failure." The Poppers simply confirmed Webb...
Operation Desert Shield has prevented Saddam from invading Saudi Arabia as he has Kuwait. The aim of our presence in the Middle East was not to "liberate...Kuwait from Iraqi occupation," as Mr. Morgan says. This goal we are trying to achieve through United Nations pressure...
Just beyond the truck, a miniature desert tornado forms, funneling sand toward the cloudless sky and scattering garbage as it dances through the camp. "We are not poor people who can live in the desert,"says Mohammed Tahir, 30, who worked for 12 years in Kuwait in an Indian restaurant. "We had jobs and apartments and good lives." Tahir has been in no-man's-land for seven days. As frightened as he was by life in Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion, Tahir insists there is no comparison. He says, "I have come to a place that is even worse...
...flow. With some effort, the Ataturk dam on the Euphrates River could be used as a plug on the crucial water supply, and there are already enough antiaircraft missiles in place to defend it from Iraqi bombers. Another, more wasteful proposal is simply to divert feeder rivers into desert areas. U.S. officials are aware that the Iraqi regime worries about a cutoff: in the early days of the crisis, Baghdad pointedly warned Turkey not to tamper with its water...