Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...average chocolate candy bar melts at 78 degrees F. The average day in the Saudi Arabian desert can peak at a toasty 120 degrees. Result: a sticky problem for G.I.s who crave a little chocolate as they wage a waiting war along the Saudi-Iraqi border. Last week Pennsylvania's Hershey Foods launched an all-out offensive against the candy-killing climate of the Middle East. Its secret weapon: 144,000 Desert Bars. Designed to meet the Army's demand for "heat-resistant" milk chocolate, the Desert Bar approximates the flavor of its home-front cousins, while standing...
February 15: War still rages in the desert. Casualties mount. The hostilities make it impossible for the armed forces to recruit. The promise of job training doesn't help anymore, and not even appeals to patriotism are enough to fill the ranks. Bush reinstates the draft. In keeping with the spirit of the Selective Service Act, there are no exemptions for students...
...aware of the situation. Judith Miller, a special correspondent for the New York Times, and Mylroie, a Bradley Foundation fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, offer a clear, concise and thoroughly readable explanation of how American troops came to be stationed in the Saudi Arabian desert...
Officially, France remains on the anti-Saddam bandwagon. During the CSCE summit in Paris two weeks ago, President Francois Mitterrand repeatedly told Bush that "we're not going to leave you alone in the desert." The public is more diffident: in a poll published by Le Figaro last week, only 36% said they would favor French involvement in a gulf war, down from 46% in September. An earlier survey had shown that 53% wanted France to stand by the U.S.; that figure has fallen...
...long way. Less than 1 g (0.035 oz.) of a bacterium called tularemia could produce thousands of deadly doses. U.S. officials insist that soldiers can be protected from such an attack with gas masks and nonpermeable clothing. But the gear cannot be worn indefinitely, especially in the desert's searing heat, and strains resistant to existing vaccines can be developed...