Word: inland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, partly sunny, high around 60 at the coast, 70 inland. North wind 10 to 15 mph becoming easterly in the afternoon. Tonight, clear, low 50 to 55. Tomorrow, mostly sunny and warmer, highs...
...awaiting what Baghdad obviously expected to be the main allied thrust. Coalition troops did in fact initially concentrate in front of them. But in the last 16 days before the attack, more than 150,000 American, British and French troops moved to the west, as far as 300 miles inland from the gulf, setting up bases across the border from an area of southern Iraq that was 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...
Saudi and other Arab troops hit the strongest Iraqi fortifications near the coast. To their left were the U.S. 1st and 2nd Marine divisions, which had moved inland. The Marines attacked at points known to allied commanders as the "elbow" of Kuwait, where the border with Saudi Arabia turns sharply to the north, and the "armpit," where it abruptly sweeps west again. They were led in person by Lieut. General Walter Boomer, the top Marine in the gulf area, according to operational plans he had forwarded only 16 days earlier to the Pentagon, where they caused raised eyebrows because...
Today, a chance of a shower early, then gradual clearing, high 45 to 50. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Tonight, clear and cooler, low around 35 along the coast, 25 to 30 inland. Tomorrow, partly cloudy, high...
...vast inland desert, empty until a few weeks ago, is filling with the troops and equipment of 11 Arab and Islamic armies committed to the liberation of Kuwait. On paper they make up a formidable military force: 60,000 Saudis, 10,000 men of the other gulf states, armored divisions from Egypt and Syria, infantry regiments from Bangladesh, Morocco and Pakistan. By joining publicly with the U.S. and its European allies, they have already made their most important contribution by proving that the confrontation with Iraq is not a neocolonial attack on the Arab nation. But if a war begins...