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...week, when a number of oil wells and storage tanks were set afire at Al-Wafra field in southern Kuwait and at the Shuaiba industrial complex just north of Mina Al- Ahmadi. U.S. and Saudi officials claimed that the fires were set by Iraq, perhaps to provide a massive shield of smoke that would confuse the guidance systems of allied missiles and planes and block the view of military satellites...
Brown, a graduate student, and Fowler, an undergrad, were forced to dig a shallow cave in the snow, after initial attempts to shield themselves from the severe weather failed...
...Home Shopping Network used the outbreak of war as a pretext to hawk Operation Desert Shield T-shirts and 3 X 5' American flags; the "amount sold" figure at the bottom of the screen rose so fast it looked like a stopwatch running...
Although no one was killed by the missile barrage, Kelsen said that three people were reported dead in the wake of the attack--including a small child who smothered in a protective tent designed as a shield from gas attacks...
BATTLEFIELD HISTORIANS. Military History Detachments from all the services have been sent to the gulf to collect and preserve maps and other documents that will eventually become the official history of Desert Shield for the National Archives. Also on deck: service members with artistic talent to do sketches documenting troop life in the sand...