Word: seale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trial By Jury, a short musical which takes an amusing look at divorce court. Angelina (Jenny Giering) takes her lover Edwin to trial for falling in love with another woman. The jurors, beguiled by Angelina's beauty, immediately become biased and prepare to convict Edwin. But before they seal his fate, the judge comes to the rescue with a solution that makes all parties happy...
...vehicles destroyed by allied aircraft. At the Iraqi border last week, tragedy was replaced by joy. Several thousand Kuwaitis were kidnapped by Iraqi soldiers in the last days of the occupation; last Friday Baghdad suddenly released about 1,175, transporting them back to Kuwait City in trucks bearing the seal of the Republican Guard. Most had been held at a military barrack near Basra, squeezed in so tight that they were forced to take turns sleeping. For the first three days, they were given no food or water. From then on, they subsisted on a single rock-hard roll...
...allied air campaign began, a massive troop movement was secretly set in motion that would seal Saddam's fate. Fearing that a frontal assault on heavily dug-in Iraqi defenders could lead to thousands of allied casualties, Schwarzkopf launched the flanking maneuver he would later compare to the Hail Mary play -- the football maneuver in which a quarterback praying for a last-minute touchdown sends his receivers far off to one side and then deep into the end zone...
...more and more of his troops -- 535,000 eventually -- on its soil or just north of the Kuwait-Iraq frontier. Apparently he hoped to refight his past war, the eight-year contest of attrition with Iran, battling from behind elaborate fortifications and minefields, with armored reserves quickly deployable to seal off enemy breakthroughs...
...westernmost assault, the French demonstrated that they were expert at desert combat as well. With its Foreign Legion components, France's 7,600-man 6th Light Armored Division conducted one of the most spectacular feats of the war, racing across 105 miles of Iraqi territory to seal off enemy avenues of retreat. The flanking movement blitzed to capture an airfield at the fortified town of As Salman. French Defense Minister Pierre Joxe boasted that impressed U.S. officers likened the troops to a "high-speed train...