Word: overlander
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...Arriving overland from the Midwest is an eight-member women's team from the University of Wisconsin...
...employment to live?" asks Ali of the Plaza Hotel. "Obviously we are being forced to leave." But even leaving is difficult. Approximately 30,000 Palestinians hold Egyptian travel documents, but Cairo is less than eager to take them. Jordan is the only available haven, but Saudi Arabia has refused overland transit to Amman, Iraq has allowed it only sporadically, and the only other way out, by air, is costly. The result is a general milling about -- a bitter and demoralized Palestinian population resigned to a fate most are unable to seal...
...Iraq's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, met with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Moscow and was presented with what a Kremlin spokesperson described only as a "concrete plan" for settlement of the gulf crisis. Aziz then flew back to Iran, and from there he will head overland to Iraq today. The Soviets said they expected a swift response from Saddam...
...Basa can remember in detail exactly when his luck ran out. It was shortly after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 28, at a point in the Kuwaiti desert about 14 miles north of the Saudi border. On eight previous smuggling runs, the midday heat had protected Basa's overland enterprise. The Iraqis, everyone knew, were creatures of habit who invariably shunned the harsh...
Apparently realizing that he had underestimated Western reaction, Hussein distanced himself from Saddam last week. He stressed that Jordan recognized the ousted government of Kuwait and signed on to U.N. sanctions that will close a vital Iraqi overland route to Jordan's port of Aqaba. He even went so far as to call the escalation toward confrontation the "most dangerous crisis ((the region)) has ever faced," though he still declined to take a position on last week's summit resolution...