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Because preliminary results were still unavailable last night, chat at headquarters centered primarily on low voter turnout. Wolf supporters stationed at polls around the city said as few as eight people had voted in the last two hours of polling. At midday, turnout was so low that Wolf began to knock on neighborhood doors, soliciting last minute votes...
...voice is intimate, sonorous, authoritative, urgent. It has stories to ( tell, issues to explore, products to promote. One product above all: itself. Turn on one of 400 radio stations around midday, and listen...
...more pressing worry for the people of the gulf region is the unknown health effects of the pall of pollution. Not only have black smoke and ash darkened Kuwait's midday skies, but unburned and partially burned oil is also spewing from the wellheads. Someone standing near the al-Ahmadi oil field will find his shirt quickly covered with malignant black droplets that fall like an epoxy rain. The heat of the fires pushes much of the unburned oil high into the sky; it has rained down as far away as Qatar, 645 km (400 miles) to the south...
When the family sat down to begin the midday meal, however, Robert was missing. Agnes left his plate warming in the kitchen. Two hours later, police found the family's bullet-riddled bodies still seated around the food-laden table. There was so much blood it had seeped into the basement...
Nearly all units continued moving at rapid rates: the Saudis and U.S. Marines in Kuwait toward the north; American Army units toward the Euphrates; British, other American, Egyptian and Syrian forces to the east. The French, having taken As Salman in 36 hours, stopped at midday on Schwarzkopf's orders to set up a defensive position guarding the units to their right against any Iraqi attack from the west...