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...delivering news and information about the gulf. In Maplewood, N.J., the Hammond map company was working to fill 70,000 orders for a Middle East Crisis map published in October. Cable-TV companies have enjoyed a surge in business too, largely because many viewers suddenly feel they must have CNN. Travel agents reported that customers were demanding hotels with cable TV. Said Michael Arrington, chairman of a chain of travel agencies based in Chicago: "Getting away from it all is no longer a draw...
Inside Kuwait, meanwhile, resistance members wait. When the war started, techno-euphoria erupted. As they watched the CNN telecasts from Dubai, they marveled at the allied coalition's precision weapons. Expecting almost instant liberation, they began to joke. "We told each other we were going to beat the record," said Ali Salem, one of the resistance leaders. Israel took six days to defeat an Arab coalition during the 1967 war; now, the Kuwaitis predicted, the U.S. would show Israel how it could be done in even less time...
...communicate events fairly and accurately without revealing confidential military information. The problem has been made even tougher by the advent of live, satellite-fed TV communication. While U.S. viewers are watching air-raid alerts and Scud attacks as they happen, so are the Iraqis, via CNN. One ill-advised sentence or too revealing a picture could put troops in danger...
...dispatches from Iraq itself have posed unique problems. CNN's Peter % Arnett, the last American correspondent left in Baghdad, has been filing reports via satellite with the approval of Iraqi censors. Fears that his dispatches are being used for propaganda purposes surged last week, when Arnett reported that allied bombs had hit a plant that manufactured infant formula. U.S. officials insist that it produced biological weapons...
...have access to most military sites, they can travel only under military escort and the escorts censor all outgoing news dispatches. The White House has also lashed out at journalists who have not transmitted the unadorned Pentagon line to the public. Last week, presidential spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater accused veteran CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, one of a handful of Western correspondents remaining in Baghdad, of being a "conduit" for Iraqi propaganda because he reported that allied warplanes had bombed a milk factory...