Word: riyadh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...camouflage-clad American troops with automatic rifles slung over their shoulders have all but disappeared from the streets of Riyadh. In the cool evening hours, Saudi families once again browse in the stores, examining electronic gadgets and comparing the latest imported luxury cars. In Jidda, gateway to the Muslim shrines of Mecca and Medina, preparations are well under way to accommodate the 2 million pilgrims expected during this month's hajj. Says an adviser to a senior Saudi minister: "We feel a cloud has been lifted from over our land...
...thought I was magnificent," joked Neal, who served as the primary spokesman from military headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during the Persian Gulf...
...weapons like the F-18 Hornet and the Tomahawk cruise missile, have privately concluded that some other important systems were maddeningly unreliable. Secret Navy memos disclose that shipboard communications computers, the key link to General Norman Schwarzkopf's headquarters, were dangerously slow and out of date. Crucial orders from Riyadh were transmitted to some naval vessels at pokey telex speed, often arriving in more than 20 separate pieces and taking up to six hours to be completed. (Personal computers found in many homes can transmit data 10 to 20 times as fast.) The delays left pilots with little time...
...desperate effort to bypass the electronic logjam, officers from the U.S.S. Saratoga began running a 200-mile helicopter shuttle from their Red Sea position to Riyadh. There the day's orders were copied onto a floppy disk, flown back to the carrier, transferred to hard drive and distributed...
...matter has been brought to the attention of allied headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia...