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...addition to the airline's available cash, ample financing has been provided by the Kuwait Investment Office in London, supplemented by a loan from the Kuwaiti government-in-exile. Other carriers have helped too. In Dublin, Aer Lingus has arranged for Kuwait Airways to patch into its computerized worldwide reservation system. Another problem arose when Iraqi troops confiscated large supplies of Kuwait Airways tickets. The carrier will now use tickets with a new design. The International Air Transport Association is making sure that only tickets issued by Kuwait Airways are honored...
...elections are over. There will be nighttime Kuwaiti high tides and little moonlight at mid-month, favorable conditions for an invasion. President Bush's promised Thanksgiving visit could be a trick to lull Saddam into complacency...
...improvising can make a lot of difference. Another major effect of the embargo has been to cut Iraq's ability to pay for its imports with oil revenues. Here, too, Saddam can find ways around the restrictions. For one thing, he confiscated some $1 billion in gold in the Kuwaiti treasury. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly been offering him credit. In addition, Saddam runs a police state that can easily squelch discontent about plunging living standards. Adding up all the guesses and intangibles, Western intelligence officials estimate that Saddam can survive the embargo pretty well until some time...
Billowing plumes of dust high into the air, a column of heavy tanks rumbles across the flat Arabian desert just south of the Kuwaiti frontier. The M-60s are American-made, but their crews are Egyptian. Five miles away, a cluster of British-built Chieftain tanks are poised with their guns pointed toward the border. This detachment is part of a Kuwaiti army brigade that managed to escape the Iraqi invaders. "Our mission," says Colonel Ibrahim Al-Wasmi, the unit's deputy commander, "is to return to Kuwait...
Since the Arab armies are positioned between the Kuwaiti border and the more than 200,000 American, British and French troops in Saudi Arabia, their commitment to an offensive would be no small matter. "The Arab forces complicate Saddam's problems if he chooses to go south," says retired U.S. Army Lieut. General William Odom, now an analyst with the Hudson Institute in Washington. "They complicate ours if we choose to go north...