Word: saudi
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EVEN as some American troops await conflict in Saudi Arabia, others are participating in a less noticed and less hyped military invasion--right here...
...burn the flag, while George Bush, also a war hero, was leading a posse of television camera crews to the Iwo Jima Memorial in Virginia, where he grandly condemned such acts. More recently, Kerrey has questioned the Persian Gulf deployment and flatly opposed a $20 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Even before he first ran for office, Kerrey supported amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers. These positions have not won much favor among generally conservative Nebraskans. Nor did his role at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing, where Kerrey so aggressively upbraided Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter (who is from his home...
...debate, the government belatedly offered $4 billion in cash to support the frontline states and the multinational forces arrayed against Iraq. Yet many Japanese realized that simply handing out money was an insufficient gesture at a time when other nations were sending soldiers to risk their lives in the Saudi desert. In a newspaper interview, former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, showing his occasional affinity for tasteless similes, declared, "If we were to try to settle everything with money, we would be viewed like the Merchant of Venice...
...will ease Bush's task. U.S. officials have designated a series of acts that the Iraqi dictator might take as trip wires for an American strike that could be presented as legitimate self- defense. The most obvious is an Iraqi attack on the U.S. or other international forces in Saudi Arabia (or possibly on Israel, although America's Arab allies would hardly be eager to fight in defense of what they call the "Zionist entity"). Preparations for an attack might also suffice. For example, if satellites detected the fueling of Iraqi missiles, the U.S. and allies might strike right away...
...Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '44 on the professor who will fill a chair at the Med School endowed by Saudi Arabian Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. Turki has been esconced in the Charles Hotel since July under the protection of Harvard and Cambridge police and, according to news services, has a long and checkered history of encounters with law enforcement officials...