Word: preware
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reputation as the jewel of the gulf. For the Palestinian community, which is credited with actually building much of Kuwait, there is an additional -- and legitimate -- concern: further persecution by Kuwaitis enraged by Palestinian support for Saddam Hussein. Of the 168,000 Palestinians left in Kuwait out of a prewar total of 400,000, about half are expected to emigrate...
Never let it be said that April Glaspie does not know how to suffer in silence. Ever since Iraq invaded Kuwait last August, the Bush Administration has tried to make Glaspie, then the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, the scapegoat for Washington's prewar policy of appeasing Saddam Hussein. That was easy to do, since Glaspie was prohibited from giving her version of the infamous meeting she had in Baghdad with the Iraqi dictator a week before the invasion. Iraq leaked a doctored transcript in September quoting Glaspie as saying that the U.S. had "no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts...
Moreover, old, prewar problems have not disappeared. "When the glow wears off, there will be exaggerations of previous difficulties," warns Dr. Paul Fink, medical director of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center. "If the marriage was not too good before, the return could precipitate the disruption of the marriage." And even a solid marriage may need to be handled with care. "Re-establishing sexual intimacy can be like going through courtship again," says Falk...
Kuwait is burning -- physically, politically and spiritually. Kuwait City, where 80% of the prewar population of 2 million lived, is a sad, lonely town. The skyscrapers are abandoned, their ground-level shops have been looted, and nearly everything is covered with an oily soot, a reminder of the ongoing conflagration outside the capital -- the hundreds of oil-well fires depleting the nation's lifeblood at a rate far greater than anyone had predicted...
...achieve nearly total success with so few losses "almost miraculous." Not only were the pessimists and skeptics wrong, including all those who had said the aerial bombing was going badly, but the optimists were far off the mark too. American casualties were less than 5% of the lowest prewar Pentagon estimates. U.S. forces had prepared about 10,000 beds, aboard ships and in three field hospitals, to receive the wounded; only a tiny fraction were filled...