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...confederates got away, their Chevy Blazers roaring off for Kuwait City. By nightfall they would resupply the Kuwaiti resistance with 90 AK-47 assault rifles, 17 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 5,000 rounds of ammunition and, at $25,000 each, three more mobile telephones equipped with portable satellite dishes -- high-tech communications systems capable of connecting those "inside" with the outside world...
...will aid a radical transformation of Kuwait's economy. As oil is a nonrenewable resource, Kuwait's leaders are eager for their country to develop in new directions. "We can become the Route 128 of the Middle East," says Fawzi al-Sultan, referring to Boston's beltway dotted with high-tech managerial and consulting firms. "We can be the financial brains behind industrial enterprises in the rest of the gulf and in the Arab world at large. As our ancestors were often away as merchant traders, so large numbers of us can be working abroad in Kuwaiti-owned enterprises...
...Given the static defensive posture of Saddam's air and ground forces, which reduces wear and tear on equipment, they could probably maintain their current level of readiness for nine months at least. After that, however, the unavailability of spare parts would start to tell, especially for Iraq's high-tech air force. Webster predicted that by as early as next March, Baghdad would have to reduce reconnaissance and training flights by its fleet of French- and Soviet-made aircraft. The departure of foreign technicians and the lack of replacement parts, he said, would make repairs too difficult...
...Time--It seems that author Michael Crichton '64 is already making an impact on Harvard's Board of Overseers, to which he was elected last June. When the Board began discussing computer technology for the University last weekend, Crichton, who wrote the The Andromeda Strain, a novel about high-tech efforts to fight an extraterrestial microbe, was especially interested. According to another overseer, "There's nothing [being developed now] that wasn't in the The Andromeda Strain 25 years...
...executive John A. Armstrong '56 and Michael Crichton '64, author of the science fiction novel The Andromeda Strain, which described high-tech efforts to battle a mutating extraterrestrial virus, showed a particular interest in the use of computers for teaching, one overseer said...