Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, the Administration would prefer to continue the buildup in Saudi Arabia, pursue the economic blockade of Iraq, and try to keep up the international pressure until Saddam folds. That scenario has the ring of wishful thinking. Economic sanctions are rarely decisive; in Cuba and Vietnam they only stiffened the resolve of those at whom they were aimed...
...long. The fear of war alone was enough to push financial markets in the U.S., Europe and Japan into a deep slide, a mere foretaste of the worldwide economic disaster that would occur if an all-out war erupted, involving not just the U.S. and Iraq but Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries -- perhaps including Israel -- as well. The call-up of U.S. reserves will remove 40,000 men and women from their families and jobs...
...photographer Dennis Brack, the second most remarkable aspect of taking pictures of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia has been the 115 degrees heat. "I have sunburn on top of my sunburn," jokes Brack, who dutifully applies SPF 39 sun block every hour to little avail. "My warmest situation so far was taking pictures in the exhaust of an F-15 jet under the midday sun. It was so hot, the rubber grips around my lenses started to melt off." The heat and dust have already claimed one of Brack's cameras, and he is well into every piece of backup...
...only three still photographers in the Pentagon press pool, Brack has taken some of the most powerful photographs ever published of an army preparing for battle: a column of fresh-faced G.I.s striding purposefully into * the Saudi sands, a lone soldier trudging toward a tent sculpted to look like a sand dune and, in this week's issue, a muscular-looking F-15 Eagle fighter preparing for takeoff, fully armed and ready for business. Under the rules of the pool, all pictures taken by Brack must be shared with other U.S. newsmagazines and wire services; this explains why his work...
...pool was scheduled to be disbanded last Sunday, but Brack, who is based in Washington and has shot for TIME for 25 years, is remaining in Saudi Arabia to work exclusively for us. That's good news for you and me, but as for Brack . . . he smiles every time he thinks about the vacant house on the Delaware shore where he was planning to spend his summer vacation. "I wanted sun and sand," he says, shrugging. Surveying the endless Saudi desert, he adds, "I'll pretend it's a very wide beach...