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ENDANGERED SPECIES. In The Garden of Earthly Delights and subsequent pieces, Martha Clarke has proved herself the most original and visually imaginative director working the fertile border between dance and drama. Her new work, inspired by the environmental debate, debuts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Through...
Schwarzkopf had an unexpected opportunity to assess Iraqi preparedness two weeks ago. Hours before his arrival at a remote Saudi patrol post on the Kuwaiti border, 13 Iraqi soldiers turned up. According to Saudi officers, such peaceful incursions across the border by Iraqi troops seeking food and water are common. Some of them defect; others, fearing for the lives of their families, are allowed to return. While the Saudis debriefed their Iraqi guests, Schwarzkopf discovered one of their trucks had a transmission leak and a battery without water. "That shows the poor state of their maintenance," he said...
...aftermath," said the President, "there may be opportunities for Iraq and Kuwait to settle their differences permanently . . . and for all the states and the peoples of the region to settle the conflict that divides the Arabs from Israel." The hint of future Iraqi-Kuwaiti negotiations on such points as border disputes, ownership of oil fields and Iraqi access to the Persian Gulf was not new. But the mention of Israel seemed to contradict two months of indignant refusals from Bush to consider any link between Iraq's occupation of Kuwait and Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza...
...Syria while diverting the world's attention. Among the targets already identified: U.S. Ambassador Roger Harrison. Says an Israeli military official: "Creating havoc in Jordan would serve Saddam Hussein's interests well. It might even bring Israel, Syria and even the Saudis to send troops to the Jordanian border...
...television interview last week, the Secretary of State was pointedly asked by New York Times reporter R.W. Apple Jr. why the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, on Baker's direct orders, told Saddam Hussein in late July that the U.S. took no position on Iraq's border and economic dispute with Kuwait. A week later, Iraq invaded the emirate...