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...that battle. But those who trek up the steps to the top no longer see the rustic cow pastures where most of the men died. They see the golden arches of McDonalds, the Pizza Hut, the American schools and the Chevy station wagons with Virginia plates in the supermarket parking lots...
...relatively well behaved, knocked on Kuwaitis' doors to ask for handouts. Those troops are gone now, replaced by a scruffy army of "volunteers," mostly teenagers and retirees armed with AK-47s. They simply enter houses and take food. They seem to regard their mission as a nasty game of Supermarket Sweepstakes. Ron Jack, an American escapee who watched Iraqi forces pillage a giant Kuwaiti store, says, "They went straight for the hi-fis and televisions." Other troops have piled 12-wheelers high with Kuwaiti munitions and missiles...
...pillage and rape. A Turkish man saw Iraqi troops carry off every piece of gold in every store along Amara Street, Kuwait's jewelry row. Other witnesses said soldiers broke into automobile showrooms, seized Mercedes and drove them back to Iraq. The marauders raided private homes and even emptied supermarket shelves. "It was more like a big robbery than an invasion," said Ali Awsar, a Turk who had been working in Kuwait...
...hopes. After 40 years as the poor relatives, the East Germans were going to be welcomed into the big house. Following decades of yearning for the good life, as they had seen it nightly on West German television, 16 million East Germans would be inside the supermarket with real money in their pockets. In the country's first-ever free election last March, people acted not only on the principle of one man, one vote, but also for one mark, one mark. Last Sunday, when monetary union between the two parts of the country took effect, they began to collect...
...shopping spree had actually started months earlier. East Germans moved beyond the oranges and bananas, so popular when the Wall first came down, to consumer electronics and cars. Everywhere, new brand names began to beckon: Panasonic, Miele, Zanussi. Magdeburg became Marlboro country. The West German chain Spar opened a supermarket 40 km east of the border and stocked it with Western goods. East Berlin got its Benetton...