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GRAPEVINE, Page 31Footnotes From the Front
By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
The gulf crisis makes headlines, but it has also produced
a crop of strange and little noticed war stories:
PROPAGANDA MILL. Saddam's flacks are telling radio and TV
audiences that American soldiers "are drinking alcohol, eating
pork and practicing prostitution." A clandestine radio station
claims that 40% of U.S. servicemen are infected with the AIDS
virus.
WHERE'S THE BEEF? More than 650,000 cans of corned beef were
recalled from Jordanian refugee camps after local health
officials determined that it was "not fit for consumption." One
examiner noted that the product, a gift from the European
Community, was "full of hair."
SUIT ENVY. British Aerospace has equipped its gulf-based
employees with state-of-the-art protective gear. A British
expert contends that the lightweight suits, which have a porous
charcoal lining that breathes in the searing desert heat, are
"much better than anything our own soldiers or the Americans
have."
BEASTLY FEAST. Hungry Iraqi soldiers have stormed the Kuwait
zoo, killing and eating dozens of gazelles, antelope and other
mammals. The World Society for the Protection of Animals has
reports that some of the zoo's larger predators are roaming the
streets and that a child was killed by a lion.
MINISTRY OF MORALS. Women in Saudi Arabia who drive cars or
show too much leg are routinely persecuted by the mutawain, the
country's dreaded "morals police." Now non-Muslim women are
rejoicing at a rumor that a U.S. servicewoman pulled her 9-mm
sidearm on a mutawain zealot who tried to stop her from driving
a military vehicle near the Dhahran air base. The mutawain
officer has reportedly been suspended.