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...parents. He worked as an overseas telephone operator and enjoyed the cradle-to-grave benefits of Kuwait's welfare state, but he could never be sure of his status. Because of his parents' Iraqi origins, and despite his having been born in Kuwait, he had to have a work permit to remain in the country. Naturalization, common throughout the world, is virtually impossible in Kuwait...
Water and power were operating until shortly before the Iraqis withdrew, apparently to pacify the population and permit Iraqi looters to spot unoccupied houses. When the Iraqis visited inhabited homes, it was mostly to make their presence felt. "We left things around, watches and some jewelry," says Tariq al-Riaz. "That usually satisfied them, and their searches were perfunctory. When we did need to hide, we did so in rooms we created behind walls...
...Command activities changed from isolated service-based operations -- which in Vietnam had often seemed to permit each service to fight its own war -- to close, integrated cooperation...
...Texas businesses generate 70 million tons of the stuff annually. But last week Texas became the first state to ban temporarily the development of new commercial disposal sites for such waste and to stop the expansion of existing ones. "No more will hazardous-waste facilities be rammed through the permit process over the objections of local communities," said Governor Ann Richards. "No more will they be located near schools or residential areas...
...saving grace in the postwar economy may be what even Secretary of State James Baker admits was the major reason we went to war: oil. "The economic lifeline of the industrial world runs from the Gulf, and we cannot permit a dictator such as [Saddam Hussein] to sit astride that economic lifeline," Baker said in November...