Word: saudi
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...average chocolate candy bar melts at 78 degrees F. The average day in the Saudi Arabian desert can peak at a toasty 120 degrees. Result: a sticky problem for G.I.s who crave a little chocolate as they wage a waiting war along the Saudi-Iraqi border. Last week Pennsylvania's Hershey Foods launched an all-out offensive against the candy-killing climate of the Middle East. Its secret weapon: 144,000 Desert Bars. Designed to meet the Army's demand for "heat-resistant" milk chocolate, the Desert Bar approximates the flavor of its home-front cousins, while standing...
When he thinks about it at all, which he tries hard not to do, Ali Basa can remember in detail exactly when his luck ran out. It was shortly after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 28, at a point in the Kuwaiti desert about 14 miles north of the Saudi border. On eight previous smuggling runs, the midday heat had protected Basa's overland enterprise. The Iraqis, everyone knew, were creatures of habit who invariably shunned the harsh...
...greater importance than anything Basa and a score of others smuggled into Kuwait was the wealth of data they smuggled out. Within a day of the Iraqi invasion on Aug. 2, the Kuwaiti government, already operating in Saudi Arabia, had compiled an intriguing shopping list -- computerized information desperately needed for the country's business to continue despite the nation's physical occupation. "We are not called Kuwait Inc. for nothing," says Basa, who ran a small construction company before August and is now living with his family in Cairo. "Before we are a nation, we are a business. The nationality...
...today. Certainly the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam under Richard M. Nixon was at least in part motivated by serious concerns that foreign opposition to the war was deteriorating America's ability to conduct foreign affairs. Today, even Arab nations have joined the international force in Saudi Arabia...
Still, some students stood by the president and the American show of force in Saudi Arabia. Among them was Winthrop resident Kirsten A. Blomberg '93, who said the United States has a moral objective in the Gulf...