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Eleven seconds. Harvard forward Ted Donato--having corraled the puck behind the Crimson blue line--sprints down the left flank. Six seconds. A low screamer finds net behind Kennedy's left...
Thus in addition to the indignities of his war loss and having his southern flank still largely under U.S. control, Saddam now finds northern Iraq occupied by foreign forces who freely order his troops around. Hopes of putting an end to such humiliations surely contributed to his decision to offer the Kurds an olive branch. Saddam was also motivated by a desire to bring calm to the country so as to encourage the lifting of U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq. "The embargo is killing him. He can't begin reconstruction," says a senior Western diplomat in Ankara...
Schwarzkopf reasoned that if his subordinates doubted it could be done, Saddam's generals would be quite certain that such a move was impossible and, lacking any aerial reconnaissance to indicate it was actually under way, would leave "this big, open flank" largely undefended. He was right...
...general called "not a fun place to be." Behind Egypt's two-division tank and paratroop contingents was the 19,000-man Syrian 9th Armored Division, with its 270 Soviet-made T-62 tanks. The two- pronged Arab attack took out Iraqi defenders on the U.S. Marines' left flank, then wheeled east in a sweep toward...
...mostly empty desert. Part of that allied force was to drive straight to the Euphrates River, cutting off retreat routes for the Iraqi forces in Kuwait; another part was to turn east and hit Republican Guard divisions along the Kuwait-Iraq border, taking them by surprise on their right flank...