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...withdraws completely from Kuwait. The gulf states and Saudi Arabia must find better ways of defending themselves than they had before Aug. 2. One possibility is that they will offer Egypt financial inducements to remain in the region as a deterrent force. Cairo sent two of its crack armored divisions to Saudi Arabia and does not expect them back in the foreseeable future...
...beginning of February, only 5 in. of rain fell vs. an average of 28 in. for that period. Reservoirs are half full at best; some are empty. At Edwards Air Force Base, near Lancaster, pumping for groundwater has opened a half-mile-long, 12-ft.- deep, 4-ft.-wide crack close to a runway used by the space shuttles. Enough trees have died in the past two years, says the state Forestry Department, to build 1 million large three-bedroom houses. "I don't want to sound too severe," says a spokesman, "but there are certainly more dead trees than...
...pessimistic, view of what is to come. The initial uncontested air raids and gee-whiz video glimpses of bombing turned out to be less decisive than they seemed in the first flush of euphoria, and the dream of immediate surrender has deteriorated into occasional fears that nothing will crack Saddam Hussein's will...
...those weapons in large numbers. They will not be a decisive weapon but may advance his plan to cause as many deaths as possible. He will also fire off his Scuds with chemical warheads, if he has them, at Israel in another attempt to widen the war and crack the coalition...
That could become crucial in the next few weeks. One of the top-priority U.S. targets is the Republican Guards, Saddam's crack troops, who form a mobile reserve to be thrown into the eventual land battle for Kuwait at the most critical points. A high British officer says the allies will not launch the climactic ground offensive until at least 30%, and preferably 50%, of the Guards' fighting power is destroyed from the air. But how will they know when that point is reached? Washington officials admit they are having trouble gauging how much damage bombing is doing...