Word: saudi
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...Soviet Union to fill the vacuum, and to do so together. Each superpower has formidable firepower within striking distance of Iraq and, in Saudi Arabia and Syria, a well-armed client state on Iraq's border. Even before the latest crisis, Moscow and Washington had begun to cooperate on other trouble spots: in Central America, southern Africa and Southeast Asia. Last week they joined diplomatic forces again, first at the United Nations, then at the meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. That was the bright spot in last week's scary news. Therein lies...
...Pentagon sources revealed that the U.S. might station as many as 250,000 ground troops in Saudi Arabia, the dangerous standoff in the desert continued to rattle nerves across the Middle East...
...tension reached as far as the hills of Tennessee and farms of Wisconsin, where local Air National Guardsmen were hurriedly called from their civilian jobs to help ferry U.S. troops and gear the 5000 miles to Saudi Arabia...
...Pentagon source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the United States was prepared to put "many divisions" in Saudi Arabia in the face of a continued Iraqi buildup in Kuwait...
...defense of Saudi Arabia is paramount,"White House spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater saidyesterday. It is, he added, "clearly in thenational interest to stop [Iraqi President] SaddamHussein...