Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could attack allied ships in the gulf with either air-launched or sea-launched Exocets. They would do little damage to a battleship or cruiser but could cause havoc on a destroyer or frigate. It is also possible that Iraqi frogmen might try to swim in and plant mines in Saudi ports or oil facilities...
Iraqi forces in Kuwait and southern Iraq have a weak link: their water supply. According to U.S. intelligence reports, the Iraqis have only about four days' worth of water on hand for drinking and for cooling tanks and vehicles. The supply flows from an already damaged desalinization plant in Kuwait City and via pipelines and tanker trucks from Baghdad and Basra. So far, allied bombers have concentrated on higher-priority targets within Iraq, including mobile Scud missile launchers. But coalition leaders will soon focus on the supply lines, and remain confident that they can thirst out the Iraqis. Predicts...
...have posed unique problems. CNN's Peter % Arnett, the last American correspondent left in Baghdad, has been filing reports via satellite with the approval of Iraqi censors. Fears that his dispatches are being used for propaganda purposes surged last week, when Arnett reported that allied bombs had hit a plant that manufactured infant formula. U.S. officials insist that it produced biological weapons...
...scene also contained a spooky suggestion of the stakes involved, the bracketing of infants and apocalypse. The Americans said the plant they destroyed had manufactured weapons of biological warfare. Someone was lying...
Saddam Hussein's armies last week seemed to be enacting a travesty of the Arab motif of veiling and concealment. In the Arab world, women often veil themselves not because they are punished or shamed but because women, who produce life, must be protected, as a plant in the desert might be. Houses turn inward, the living quarters hidden. The true treasures are concealed. Saddam similarly appeared -- or wished to appear -- to be masking his strength, hiding it in bunkers in the sand...