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After more than two decades of practice, Yasser Arafat has become an expert in the fine art of survival. Now the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization will once again have to use all his skills to find a way through the current crisis. By refusing to condemn Iraq's conquest of Kuwait, Arafat has infuriated many of his Arab backers, alienated Western powers that had only recently begun to warm to him, and driven Israeli doves into the camps of the hawks...
Sand Trap. Troops have no opportunity for randy R. and R. in Saudi cities, but they have found another use for their prophylactics. Soldiers are placing condoms over the muzzles of their machine guns to protect them from airborne sand. In World War II, ground troops sometimes used "French letters" to keep their guns from jamming in the European damp...
...Rate Crusade. Operation Desert Shield, which is costing the U.S. more than $1 billion a month, is making the Panama invasion look like a weekend jaunt. That expedition, which made use of the 12,000 U.S. soldiers already based there, cost just $163.6 million, the General Accounting Office said last week...
...dignitaries looked on, Alexi II, Patriarch of All Russia, conducted services in the formerly pre-eminent church of Russia. The Patriarch then led the first Procession of the Cross in 70 years from the Kremlin through downtown Moscow to the Church of the Great Ascension, restored after decades of use as a workshop and potato warehouse...
...happening. Mexico has, as the flacks say, an "image problem" in the U.S.: people think of drugs and corruption. Moreover, norteamericanos in general are abysmally ignorant of Mexican culture, its immense age, its stylistic types, its myths and its rich confluences. It makes good diplomatic sense to use one to correct the other. With the Columbian quincentennial of 1992 just 14 months away and the economic prestige of America battered by Japan, Germany and a general revival of Europe under the sign of the Common Market, it is time to look for alliances closer to home...