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...extremely unlikely. Those weapons are reserved for the dark hours when the nation's existence is at stake; despite Saddam's apocalyptic rhetoric, Iraq is militarily incapable of destroying Israel. Moreover, Israeli generals are confident that their conventional weapons can both paralyze Baghdad and stop dead any Iraq troop movements into Jordan...
Still, the huge American troop presence cannot help jolting Saudi composure. Says an intimate of the royal decision makers: "They know you can't get into bed with an elephant without a shock to the system." That is especially so now that the affair is out in the open. In the past the Saudis insisted on an "over the horizon" policy toward the U.S. -- they wanted protection but preferred that it be invisible. Faced with Saddam's legions, Fahd quickly < changed his mind. Even as U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney flew to Riyadh immediately after the invasion of Kuwait...
...Pennsylvania trailer park, a mother of three makes a wish list. She wishes that she lived in a house without wheels. And that she did not have to embarrass her eight-year-old daughter by pulling her out of her brownie troop because the 50 cents-a-meeting fee is too high. That food stamps could be used to buy toilet paper and deodorant. That she could get a real, professional $30 perm, one that would not wreck her hair. That her husband could find a union job, maybe in construction, that paid $6, $7, even $8 an hour. That...
...Kuwaitis to forgive them. "Some said they thought they were being sent to ) fight against Israel," says Youssef, a refugee in Saudi Arabia. An escaped Bedouin woman says, "The soldiers told us they were afraid that their families would be killed in Iraq if they refused to fight." If troop morale is low, it is not surprising that some soldiers are donning civilian clothes and trying to blend into the Kuwaiti population, while others have attempted to escape to Saudi Arabia...
Rolling unchallenged down the empty superhighway Kuwait had built -- as a token of friendship with Iraq -- to link the two countries, the troops made the 37 miles to the capital, Kuwait City, in just four hours. "It was chaos in the streets," said Stephanie McGehee, a photographer who witnessed the attack. Panicked residents tried to flee south toward Saudi Arabia, but the Iraqis forced people out of their autos and angrily ripped out car phones -- no rarity in a country with so many wealthy citizens -- presumably because they could be used to communicate troop positions...