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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Probably Saddam is banking on absorbing our air offensive and our ground ; offensive, but inflicting maximum casualties on U.S. forces," says General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the allied forces in the gulf. "Having done that, if the situation is promising, he would launch a counteroffensive. If not, having inflicted these casualties, he would rely on American public opinion to bring this whole thing to an end. And all this time he tries to portray himself as a hero to what he perceives as a supportive Arab world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battlefront: A Long Siege Ahead | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...apartments in the DeWolfe Street complex consist primarily of doubles, and according to Dingman, the maximum number of students per apartment will be four. All of the apartments in the building are equipped with full kitchens, he says...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: Shopping Mall, Apartments To Be Ready by Fall | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

Even though the Iraqi military had supposedly been on maximum alert for several days and the U.S.-led alliance had made no secret of its intent to open any war with a massive and continuing aerial campaign, the Iraqis nonetheless appear to have been taken by surprise, or at least to have been unprepared for the fury of the assault. How could that be possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle So Far, So Good | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...Soviets had begun phasing out Scuds in favor of the more versatile SS-23 surface-to-surface missile. However, Moscow did not stop selling the old workhorse. As a Soviet client, Baghdad took deliveries of the ballistic missile and improved on its range, extending the Scud-B's maximum reach of 175 miles to 390 miles for the Al Hussein model and 540 miles for the Al Abbas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dangerous Dinosaur | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...form a package. Once the rifles were truly drawn, once the liberation of Kuwait, no more than a rhetorical goal during the first days of the crisis, became the real objective of policy, an ultimatum was shrewd strategy. "The advantage of having a deadline is that it creates the maximum pressure for a peaceful solution in the last days," says British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. Now the deadline is upon us, and it cannot be ignored. If it is, nothing will ever work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment Of Truth | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

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