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...quarter to one in the morning, and Medo, a 16-year-old Kuwaiti, is chatting with his friend and compatriot Khaled, 22, as they prop up a wall at Sultana's, the third-floor disco at Cairo's Semiramis Inter-Continental. "Cairo is boring," grumbles Medo. Khaled murmurs in agreement as he eyes the action on the floor. "I come here every night," Medo says. "There's nothing else...
...Kuwait's elders do understand the problem. One exile group in Cairo has sent flyers to the 7,000 Kuwaiti families in the city, asking them to behave modestly and stop gathering conspicuously in public. Sober-minded Kuwaitis insist that their boogie-loving brethren, featured prominently in the Western media, make up only a tiny minority of their countrymen. "A lot of the criticism is bitter and not deserved just because there are a few crazy people," says Adeeb Essa, spokesman for the Association for Free Kuwait in London...
That, at least, is the theory. And to that end Saddam and his military commanders have applied the experience they gained in their eight years of defensive battles against massed Iranian troops. Their highly skilled combat engineers have turned the Kuwaiti and Iraqi borders with Saudi Arabia into a Maginot Line in the sand. In an area about the size of West Virginia the Iraqis have poured 540,000 of their million-man army and 4,000 of their 6,000 tanks, along with thousands of other armored vehicles and artillery pieces...
...hunt for Saddam's suppliers is gaining momentum. In Germany at least 59 companies are under investigation, 25 for involvement in chemical-weapons development. Saudi and Kuwaiti officials are wringing their hands over the billions of dollars they lent or granted Iraq during the war with Iran. And Egypt worries about the thousands of Egyptians who served in Saddam's army during that conflict. Many are still in the Iraqi army, raising the specter of Egyptians fighting Egyptians...
Allied forces recaptured that town, the sprawling beachside community of Khafji, within a day, but victory came only after bitter street fighting. Artillery duels along the Saudi-Kuwaiti border and firefights between U.S. Marines and groups of Iraqi troops crossing that border continued into the weekend...