Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doing has underscored some of the problems confronting the coalition against Saddam in the gulf. The state-controlled media continue to attack the U.S. bitterly for its support of Israel. In addition, Damascus officials have asserted that the 3,000 Syrian troops in Saudi Arabia will defend the desert kingdom but will not participate in an attack against the army of another Arab nation, even though Saddam and Assad, who head rival wings of the socialist Baath party, bitterly resent each other...
...miles, six countries, a sweeping accord to reduce conventional arms in Europe, a 34-nation peace charter, a dozen speeches, untold private diplomatic understandings, a quart or two of ceremonial champagne, at least 25 clean shirts, eye contact with nearly a million people and G.I. turkey in the Saudi desert (twice) -- came home to roost (certainly not rest) for the weekend. He sent his laundry out, had Air Force One fueled again (53,611 gal.) and got ready to head for Mexico this week...
Bush and his White House handlers were hoping that last week's excursion carried its own antidote to pessimism. There were 350 journalists accompanying the President, and most of them seemed to approve of his performance. The network anchors rushed for their desert tunics and created as much stir among the troops as the President himself. At the end of the Thanksgiving stage show, elaborate broadcasting facilities in the middle of the desolate sand beamed back live reports from the media superstars...
...movie's two hours and 17 minutes, there is very little dialogue at all; half an hour passes with hardly a word spoken except in Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg nomads, with whom Kit hitches a fateful ride. But there are many profound images of the desert in all its pitiless grandeur, courtesy of Bertolucci and his peerless cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro. The wind sculpts mountains and minarets out of the shifting sand. On a rocky spot where Port and Kit have just made desperate love, the setting sun alights for a moment as if in benediction...
...fate of the troops. No one in the President's Cabinet has a child serving in Saudi Arabia. Of the 535 members of Congress, just two -- Democratic Representatives Kika de la Garza of Texas and Jerry Costello of Illinois -- are known to have sons involved in Operation Desert Shield. By comparison, in 1970 there were 74 congressional children serving in Vietnam or elsewhere. But the White House and Congress these days are largely insulated from the familial consequences of their decisions about how to confront Saddam. It's one thing to be concerned about the men and women you might...