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...their closely shrouded ties with the U.S., the Saudis offered their territory as the base for the greatest concentration of American troops since the Vietnam War. A land that forbids its women to drive, to travel unaccompanied, to wear Western garb or to expose anything more than a scant flash of eyes and cheekbones is now host to thousands of rifle-toting, jeep-driving female G.I.s clad in fatigues. A country that generally bars Jews from crossing its borders and that prohibits the open practice of any religion other than Islam serves as temporary home to hundreds of American Jewish...
...recent feelers added up to an offer of withdrawal from Kuwait and release of all foreign nationals in return for several concessions: federation or some other close association between Kuwait and Iraq; guaranteed Iraqi access to the Kuwaiti islands of Bubiyan and Warbah, which block most of Iraq's scant 18 miles of Persian Gulf shoreline; and settlement of Iraq's claims regarding pumping rights in the Rumaila oil field, which lies mostly in Iraq but dips slightly into Kuwait...
...emerging harmony of international opinion, however, was scant consolation for Kuwait, since no one appeared actually willing to come to the defense of the tiny state and its 1.9 million people. While Iraq in the face of the world's condemnation promised to bring its troops home beginning five days after the invasion, a subsequent announcement made nonsense of that pledge. Baghdad said it was raising a new army for Kuwait in which -- surprise -- 100,000 Iraqis had volunteered to serve. What's more, Baghdad named a new government, composed of nine Kuwaiti army officers, that would clearly...
Critic Robert M. Parker Jr. calls it "the world's most underrated white-wine region," and to most Americans it is unknown territory. Last year the French region of Alsace produced about 12 million cases of wine; a scant 68,000 were sold in the U.S., although that was a 21% increase over 1988 levels. A pity. Unlike the sweetish Rhines and Moselles of neighboring Germany, Alsace's crisp Pinot Blancs, spicy Gewurztraminers and luscious Rieslings are flowery in bouquet but normally bone-dry in taste, in short, ideal companions to such summertime staples as shellfish, grilled chicken and pasta...
...scant months since those monumental events, Timothy Garton Ash has produced a work which brings out the best aspects of all three genres. The Magic Lantern is at once sensational, scholarly and literary...