Word: deserts
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...what he calls a "Global Marshall Plan." He has digested books, made friends with experts and traveled. Gore went, for example, to the Aral Sea in Central Asia -- 10 years ago the fourth largest inland sea in the world, now dead, its fishing fleets stranded surreally in dry desert. The water that once fed the Aral was diverted in an ill-considered irrigation project to grow cotton. Gore traveled to the vanishing Amazon rain forest and to the globe's other environmental Stations of the Cross. He knows too much, however, to indulge in mere sentimentalism about Earth-Motherhood...
During Operation Desert Shield, Colonel Kiernan served as director of the Joint Information Bureau. He is currently chief of the Command Information Division of the U.S. Army...
Sure enough, he was rescued 12 hours later with only minor injuries. Three crewmen on his Russian-built turboprop plane were killed when it crash-landed during a sandstorm over the southern Libyan desert. He and his staff of nine had been flying from the Sudan to Libya when the storm closed in. Libyan search planes found the downed craft the next morning. "I'm well," Arafat said...
...DESERT STORM GENERAL NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF once said its record was 33 for 33. President Bush was nearly as upbeat, claiming it was 41 out of 42. Last week a group of independent analysts said nobody can determine how many of the 47 threatening Iraqi Scud missiles were intercepted and destroyed by U.S. Patriot missiles...
...under fire. Classified internal Pentagon reports suggested that the vaunted F-117A Stealth fighter scored 60% of the time, not 90%, and that only about half the 288 Tomahawk missiles fired actually hit their target, down from 85%. Even with these revised figures, the high-tech successes made the Desert Storm air campaign the most accurate in history...