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Mar. 11, 1991: From the Publisher
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Mar. 11, 1991 Kuwait City:Feb. 27, 1991
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 16
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<p> As the guns went silent across the gulf, there were victory
celebrations on the home front, but for TIME correspondents
covering the war, few moments of exhilaration. The road to
Kuwait City was a desolate highway lined by unlit Iraqi fire
trenches, burning oil wells and refineries, power lines to
nowhere. When it rained on Thursday, correspondent William
Dowell looked down at his soaked shirt and saw that it was
black with soot, sifted through skies darkened by smoke from
burning oil fields.
</p>
<p> "One of the grisliest sights," said Dowell, "was the morgue
at Al-Sabah Hospital. All of the bodies had been mutilated."
Reporter Lara Marlowe found a resistance headquarters in the
suburb of Qarain, where she was shown 16 Iraqi prisoners. "No
one realized what evil the Iraqis had done until we got here,"
she said. "It was hard to understand how these frightened,
wounded people could be part of a war machine that raped and
tortured."
</p>
<p> TIME's Kuwaiti headquarters was in the Kuwait International
Hotel, which featured such amenities as no electricity, water
or food, exactly the situation on which photographer Rudi Frey
thrives. Rudi is our man on the scene who makes things happen--in this case orchestrating a generator, spark plugs and
picture-transmission equipment in a nonfunctioning capital to
begin sending TIME copy and photographs. He also performs as
local chief of morale, finding rooms on a low floor to spare
staffers the stairs and even coming up with a rare set of clean
sheets.
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<p> Most of our people were on the move. Cairo bureau chief Dean
Fischer interviewed General Norman Schwarzkopf at his Riyadh
headquarters and recalled the time last September when the
general told him the terrain was ideal for tank maneuvers. From
Cairo, senior correspondent James Wilde reported a mood of
apprehension mixed with relief; during the ground war the city
was "tense to bursting." Not all our correspondents have
war-zone stories to tell. Robert T. Zintl, whose job has been
to coordinate the flow of all briefings and pool reports,
found the enemy, and it was Arabic street signs in Riyadh. Amid
a profusion of expressways, he drove around for two hours. "The
next time I got lost," he noted ruefully, "I flagged a taxi and
paid the driver to lead me out of the maze."
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<p>-- Robert L. Miller
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