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...gloom in Kuwait these days. Beneath the funereal skies lies a country that is recovering its spirit. Electricity and water plants are working again, and the phones are beginning to function too. In the capital the giant two-floor Sultana Supermarket is once more a cornucopia of fresh vegetables and delicacies from around the world...
...Graffiti. A dozen teenagers break-dance to booming rap music that pours out of the open hatchback of a silver Renault 5 with a U.S. flag painted on its rear window. Yet even this simple celebration brings a reminder of the tension between tradition and change that is testing Kuwait. Passing the scene, a fundamentalist youth mutters, "Islam doesn't need discotheques...
Americans advising the government groaned when they learned that one of the first ships scheduled to arrive in Kuwait's freshly de-mined harbor carried several hundred Buick luxury sedans rather than badly needed construction equipment. Still, progress has been made in meeting the country's most basic requirements. Kuwait's desalination plants are now producing about 71 million gal. of water daily. Consumption is about 100 million gal. a day, but water brought in by ship makes up the shortfall. Most residents now get their water from rooftop storage tanks, but within a few months the city's reservoirs...
...megawatts of electricity, far more than the current demand of 540 megawatts. Some areas of the country still have no electricity, largely because of the Iraqis' destruction of power lines and electric substations. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing much of Kuwait's reconstruction, says some substations can be rebuilt in as little as two weeks...
Much of the wreckage caused by the Iraqis has turned out to be superficial. "Kuwait was damaged, but it was not destroyed in the way a city like Dresden was," says U.S. Major General Patrick Kelly of the Corps of Engineers. "The Iraqis had the intention of completely demolishing everything in the city, but the land war hit so fast they didn't have time...