Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These are some of the nightmarish recollections of the more than 18,000 people crammed into two huge, dusty tent camps along the Iraq-Kuwait border, one of them run by U.S. troops near the site where the Iraqi military accepted the allied cease-fire. The residents are the refugees of Safwan, most of them Shi'ites, who fled from Saddam Hussein's vengeful army when it recaptured several rebellious cities in the south after...
...possible pitfalls of the allied relief operation were underscored last week when hundreds of armed Iraqis appeared in the town of Zakhu, near the tent cities the allies are building for the Kurds. The gunmen were defying U.S. military orders that all Iraqi security forces withdraw to a line 25 miles to the south. Though they wore police uniforms, the men, plainly soldiers, made a joke of their disguise, shouting to reporters, "Police, police!" and laughing...
...That was fine by Washington, provided that the 50 were natives of Zakhu -- not outsiders bused in -- and that they registered with the Americans. The Iraqi about-face, in turn, prompted the first small trickle of Kurdish refugees to come down from the mountains and move into an allied tent city...
...also difficult to see when and how the allies can wind up Operation Haven. The U.S. and its friends insist they do not intend to let the tent cities become a second Gaza Strip, home to generations of embittered, stateless and disruptive exiles. Washington and London hope to turn over protection of the refugee settlements to a United Nations peacekeeping force in one to three months, and eventually to resettle the Kurds in their old homes under the eye of U.N. observers...
Talia is standing by the small window inside a worn tent, a streak of morning light framing her pretty face in the smoky air. She smiles at the baby in her arms, and for a singular, brief moment she looks like a Madonna in the midst of hell. Her three elder children are sitting on a blanket set on the cold, damp ground. The eldest, a boy of seven, has a vacant look in his eyes, and he twitches every few seconds, like someone lost beyond the edge of pain. His younger brother and sister gaze at him, then look...