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President Bush has won Saudi approval for a possible new U.S.-led military strike against Saddam Hussein. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to the U.S., has passed the word to senior American officials from King Fahd. Intelligence studies have found that Iraq remains a regional threat, with larger stores of biological and chemical weapons than was thought at the end of the war. If Bush decides to act, he will want to finish the job in time to reap election rewards. The Saudis will support air strikes or naval operations, but not another massive gathering of troops on their...
...made its way from the Indian Ocean toward the Persian Gulf, where U.S. naval vessels were patrolling to enforce the U.N. embargo against Iraq. But after 10 days of less than crackerjack surveillance, the Dae Hung Ho eluded U.S. warships and docked peacefully in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. The Pentagon suddenly had a lot to explain...
Staff Sergeant Robert Snow of Southington, Conn., gave quite a bit in Operation Desert Storm. A land-mine explosion left him with a shattered left arm, a broken leg and a collapsed lung. Last week Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S., gave quite a bit in return: $100,000, as a wedding gift to Snow and his bride Karin Pajor...
...prince first heard of Snow in March at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where Bandar was being treated for back problems while Snow was recovering from one of more than 12 operations. When the prince was told of Snow's condition, he tried to visit the soldier but was told he was too badly injured, and so sent flowers instead. They later met in the hospital and remained in touch by letter over the past nine months. When Snow and Pajor invited the prince to their wedding, he accepted. "The human touch is the most important to me," he says...
...Saddam sympathies, though it is not yet prepared to restore his $55 million 1991 aid package, suspended last month. The Saudis are less forgiving. For them, says a U.S. diplomat, Hussein "has to pay a readmission price, perform some act of obeisance." In a newspaper interview last week, Prince Bandar said those who leaned toward Saddam "must openly admit they were wrong...