Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SOME people are naturally happy. Offer them an obstructed-view seat at Fenway Park and they will swoon over the architectural beauty of the left field wall. Draft them to fight in Iraq and they will come back singing the joys of desert warfare. Send them to Harvard, and they will join the Crimson Key Society...
About 100,000 U.S. soldiers are dug into the Saudi Arabian desert south of the Kuwaiti border along with several thousand Arab troops. Scores of U.S. and other warships have assembled in the Persian Gulf region, where they are enforcing the U.N.-sanctioned embargo on trade with Iraq...
Murphy eventually made contact with someone who helped her join a convoy making a daring cross-desert escape to the Saudi border. A cheer went up when word reached the Washington Post newsroom last week that she was safe. Through the whole ordeal, the Massachusetts-born Murphy, 43, managed to keep her Yankee sense of thrift. When she telephoned the Post from Riyadh last week, an assistant tried to switch her to foreign editor David Ignatius. Murphy demurred. "This hotel is charging too much. Have David call me back...
America's amazing August charge into the desert of Saudi Arabia could have been a military disaster. The first troops to arrive were ill-equipped and vastly outnumbered by the Iraqi tank army poised in occupied Kuwait. Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division were told to expect to go directly into combat, though they carried nothing more effective against tanks than puny Dragon rockets and risky-to-use TOW missiles...
...would have been slaughtered." Since then, at least 40,000 American soldiers and Marines and almost a million tons of equipment have followed. But senior officers say they still need another month or two of rapid buildup to reach adequate defensive strength. Only last week, 22 days after Operation Desert Shield got under way, did the first M-1 tanks, which would be essential for fighting Iraqi armor, arrive at Saudi ports...