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...desert on a parallel track, crossing the marshes and heading toward Baghdad. Scores of Harriers and A-10 Warthogs took off from bases in Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and from aircraft carriers in the gulf, providing support to the Marines and British ground forces laying siege to Basra. Midday Sunday, the Marine column ran into stiff resistance outside Nasiriyah in what appeared to be a coming together of Iraqi forces that had been fighting in sporadic skirmishes with the 3rd Infantry over the previous 36 hours. Nasiriyah remained unoccupied by U.S. forces. In the capital, Saddam's Interior Minister...
...forces drove the Iraqi military from Kuwait. A sand barrier and trench constructed by Kuwait after the Gulf War to prevent infiltrators from crossing over now separates Iraq from Kuwait, and beyond it are the massing ranks of the invasion force. As he peers into the distance in the midday haze, vegetable farmer Shadat Dafeh Hamed mumbles, "I can't see them, but I know they are there." Hamed, 70, lives closer to the enemy than any other Iraqi. His mud-and-concrete house is scarcely 500 yards from the ridge; his village, Khardeh (pop. 280), adjoins the border post...
...impoverished state of a rare source of foreign currency. Yet, in the immediate aftermath, authorities acted as if catching the killers was at best a secondary concern. According to Western diplomatic officers, local police were busily cleaning up the ambush site instead of collecting evidence or interviewing witnesses. By midday, phone lines were cut in Vang Vieng, and the road around the town sealed. "They were trying to hush it up," claims a diplomatic official, to "pretend it didn't happen...
...breads, rolls and fillings. All too often in Paris, a sandwich means a length of flaccid baguette, a soggy slice of factory-farmed ham and a smear of margarine masquerading as butter. As work habits get more hectic, Parisians have begun to realize that a light snack at midday is nothing to be ashamed of. Yet although the city has welcomed its hamburger restaurants and panini stands with open arms, le fast food has traditionally been viewed as a disreputable foreign invention. Today, thanks to superstar chef Alain Ducasse, veteran of New York's Essex House and Paris' Plaza...
...still most popular, is Highway Four at 5 Hang Tre Street. Named after the famous scenic highway from Lang Son to Cao Bang in the north, the bar offers nearly every kind of ruou. Unlike the tea stall in Cao Bang market, however, Highway Four doesn't open until midday...