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...meanwhile, resistance members wait. When the war started, techno-euphoria erupted. As they watched the CNN telecasts from Dubai, they marveled at the allied coalition's precision weapons. Expecting almost instant liberation, they began to joke. "We told each other we were going to beat the record," said Ali Salem, one of the resistance leaders. Israel took six days to defeat an Arab coalition during the 1967 war; now, the Kuwaitis predicted, the U.S. would show Israel how it could be done in even less time...
...Salem, 35, was studying at Stanford University when Saddam's forces moved into Kuwait. Within 48 hours Salem was back home in Kuwait City. Today, with his wife and three children safe in Cairo, he coordinates food distribution in the city, keeps tabs on foreigners still hiding there and funnels intelligence reports to Taif...
...several conversations with Salem, who was speaking by satellite phone from Kuwait City, a portrait of life there emerged. "We still have water and power," he reported last week, "so we are better off here than in Baghdad. But the Iraqis cut off gas on Thursday, and they are back to their old ways. Eleven Kuwaitis were executed on Wednesday and Thursday, and house-to-house searches, which had fallen off since the war started, have now picked up again." According to Salem, the Iraqis are still hunting the few remaining foreigners in Kuwait City, and reports of Iraqi defections...
Also overblown, says Salem, are reports that Kuwait's hospitals are full of Iraqi casualties. "There are perhaps 200," he says, "but not thousands, as we know you have heard. On the other hand, our people say that the hospitals in Basra are indeed full. It seems that the Iraqis are taking their wounded home...
After graduation, Sununu taught engineering at Tufts University. At 27, he was a professor running his own consulting firm on the side. In 1969 he moved his family just across the state line, to Salem, N.H., in search of lower taxes and "a better life-style for my family." There he began his political career, winning a spot on the local planning board, then a seat as a state representative. He ran unsuccessfully for a number of higher offices, including state and U.S. Senator, before finally winning the governorship in 1982. That victory came at the trough of the Reagan...