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...company spent that first night camped on the southeastern outskirts of Samawah, an ancient mud-brick city built over an elbow of the Euphrates River. At 3am on Monday, they got the order to move through the town and secure two bridges. The first thing Talraas noticed as dawn broke were the palm trees and lush green fields. "It almost reminded me of an old Vietnam movie," he says. "We came into the desert, but this was very, very green...
...Soviet missiles we had detected, believing--as the CIA estimated--the nuclear warheads had not yet been delivered. It would be a huge attack: the first day's air strike would be 1,080 sorties. This would be followed by an invasion; we had 180,000 troops mobilized in southeastern U.S. ports. We didn't learn until 30 years later that the Soviets already had 162 warheads in Cuba, and Fidel Castro had already recommended to Nikita Khrushchev that nuclear weapons be used if the U.S. invaded. That's how close we came. Events were slipping out of control...
...mostly waiting for something to happen. After the first heavy 36 hours of this war, when Marines rolled through southeastern Iraq destroying Saddam's 51st division and the U.S. Army powered up the western flank, the last two days have been less dramatic. A supply column now runs from Kuwait north of Nasiriyah where fighting still continues. Much of the American military force is now heading toward Baghdad for what is expected to be Saddam's last stand...
Kokkalis has donated more than $5 million to the KSG’s Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe. The program, established in 1997, sponsors research to help Balkan states become democratic and capitalist, according to its website...
...Kokkalis Program has sponsored more than 150 events, and has provided scholarships for nineteen students from southeastern Europe to study at the KSG, according to Program Director Elaine M. Papoulias...