Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time last year, as George Bush searched for a convincing rationale for transforming Desert Shield into Desert Storm, he seemed to believe that Americans were not prepared for this new era of limited challenges -- and limited victories. The President's rhetoric suggested the view that only if Saddam Hussein was painted as evil incarnate could Bush rally the people behind him. Left unopposed, the President declared, the takeover of Kuwait would allow Saddam to hold Western economies hostage. On the other hand, Bush hinted, an American victory would help usher in a new world order and improve prospects for peace...
When that time off finally comes, the soldiers and their families will finally have a chance to sit back and consider what has changed -- and what hasn't -- since they were last together. Many soldiers' marriages, shaky before Desert Storm began, became casualties of the war. Tom Hacker, of Sterling, Ill., marched off to the gulf with his National Guard unit in January. He came home to a hero's welcome in May and a pink slip from the hardware factory where he had worked as a tool-and-dye man. "I felt terrible about it, but the state...
...year was spent to train and equip the 48th, which was considered a crack Guard unit. In the event of war, it was scheduled to augment the regular Army's 24th Mechanized Infantry Division. Said General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the 24th before he was tapped to lead Desert Storm: "I expect them to fight alongside us. They are, in fact, combat ready...
...when the 24th Division was rushed to the gulf last August, the 48th, which was finally called up on Nov. 30, was replaced by a regular Army brigade. In December the 48th was put through a rigorous desert-warfare program at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. It was not until Feb. 28, the day the gulf war ended, that the 48th was deemed fit to fight...
...Even the haze at the Grand Canyon, 400 miles away in the Arizona desert, is being blamed on Los Angeles. An air-quality study conducted since 1987 found traces of methyl chloroform, a chemical used in L.A.-based aerospace and electronics industries, in the canyon's atmosphere. Says Washington University chemist Warren White, one of the report's authors: "Even when you've left L.A., you can't escape...