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...observers assume that the gulf war, Saddam's vehicle to assume the mantle once worn by the Shah, cannot go on for too long. Unless resupplied by the Soviets, the Iraqis do not have the capability to wage a protracted battle, especially if they try to push deeper inland than the farthest penetration-45 miles-they claimed by week...
Cambridge's first Irish immigrants were poor and pious, displaced from their farms or starved out by the potato rot which struck in 1845. With neither the money nor the supplies to follow the Germans and the Swedes inland, they found jobs in the city's new factories and settled in tenements along the river...
...capital of this infant colony. Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley and Gov. John Winthrop led the first expedition, described by historian Thomas Wentworth Higginson at the 250th anniversary as a "semi-military picnic." They picked this bend in the Charles for the governmental seat because it seemed far enough inland to be safe from naval attack, but could be easily defended against overland aggression. And they agreed, along with about ten other officers of the colony, that they would build homes there and bring the government with them from Boston...
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. For centuries the tribes along the southern gulf coast embodied the essence of Araby. Bedouins roamed the desert in the vast inland stretches of Abu Dhabi. Savvy merchants turned Dubai into a notorious smuggling port. A great seafaring tribe, the Qawasim, ruled Sharjah and dominated the gulfs coastal routes until feudal intrigue and British colonial meddling fractured their holdings into independent emirates...
Unknown to Chip Carter, now 30, law enforcement officials were getting ready to stage a major drug bust in the Panama City vicinity that very night. Because of its isolated beaches, tree-lined inlets and intricate inland canal system, the resort area had become an important entry point for marijuana smuggled from Colombia...