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...breaks out in the Middle East as the Western powers attack an ambitious Arab dictator. The Soviet Union, threatened by revolution within its empire, takes advantage of the Middle East crisis to crush the rebellion. No, that was not just last week's news in the Persian Gulf and the Baltics; it was what happened during one tragic week late...
...experts call it the "war premium." For the U.S., heightened global anxiety about the security of Persian Gulf crude supplies has imposed an extra cost of more than $20 billion in higher oil prices since Iraq invaded Kuwait last August. The burden, acting like a new tax, helped push the U.S. into recession and put a drag on sluggish economies around the world. With every new rumor out of the Persian Gulf, the war premium swung menacingly. The gyrations gave rise to a frightening question: How high would oil prices skyrocket if fighting actually broke out -- $50 or even...
...Middle East, pool reporters at U.S. air bases in Saudi Arabia heard and felt the ground-shaking thunder of wave after wave of jets taking off. The planes headed north toward Kuwait and Iraq. At about the same time, more jets were winging off six U.S. carriers in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. Eventually, about 2,000 planes of the U.S. and six allied nations -- Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Saudi Arabia and the Kuwaiti government-in- exile -- hit targets throughout Iraq and Kuwait (though the French, - independent even when submitting to American command in war, would bomb only Iraqi...
...defense capabilities. Ground-hugging cruise missiles, flying too low for radar to detect easily, hit targets initially judged too dangerous for manned aircraft to handle. In the assault on Baghdad, some of the first blows came from Tomahawk cruise missiles fired by ships far out in the Persian Gulf. As the first explosions rocked the city, Iraqi antiaircraft fire was directed into the sky at planes that were not there -- yet. Stealth fighters also sneaked past radar to join the initial attack. Then high-flying aircraft, some launching missiles from far off, jammed or confused enemy radar and took...
...Colin Powell, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Wednesday in Washington that air attacks would intensify along supply routes and lines of communications around the Iraqi city of Basra, near the Persian Gulf and Kuwait border, in attempt to strangle the Iraqi army in Kuwait...