Word: dhahran
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Carl Nolte, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, spent his first few days in Saudi Arabia wandering around Dhahran's International Hotel, mostly reading pooled reports from his peers. Then he moved to Riyadh, where he sat in on military briefings. Finally, exasperated, he climbed into his rented Chevrolet Caprice and simply headed north. He got lost several times on the poorly marked roads but eventually hooked up with U.S. troops, who complained to him about everything from inadequate supplies to late paychecks. Nolte duly sent the news home. "If you sit around waiting for the scraps...
...troops at the front are short of key pieces of equipment and basic items like soap. The Los Angeles Times, which has been offering the most extensive and informative daily coverage of the war, has published a steady stream of enterprising features on such topics as the history of Dhahran and the effort by military lawyers to make sure allied troops obey the rules...
...pools are intended to help reporters gain access and to avoid the nightmare of more than 700 journalists all trying to reach the front lines at once. "Having reporters running around would overwhelm the battlefield," says Colonel Bill Mulvey, director of the military's Joint Information Bureau in Dhahran...
...week's most memorable moment came not when General Powell unveiled his diagrams of damaged Iraqi targets but when CNN's Charles Jaco scrambled for his gas mask on the air in Saudi Arabia, in the erroneous belief that he had whiffed poison gas during an alert in Dhahran...
...their radios crackled an alert. Peeling off, they intercepted a pair of Iraqi fighters heading toward gulf waters where British warships were operating. Captain Ayedh al-Shamrani swerved his U.S.-built F-15 behind the Mirage F-1s and shot both out of the sky. Returning to base in Dhahran, the Saudi pilot received a hero's welcome. Said the modest Shamrani...