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SUBJECT:  SANDSCRIPT NEWSLETTER ISSUE 165, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1991

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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1991				ISSUE 165, DESERT STORM

NEWS BRIEFS

CLIPPINGS FROM LOCAL PAPERS

IRAQ HAS PUT CRACK COMMANDOS ON THE STREETS OF BADHDAD AND THROWN UP
CHECKPOINTS OUTSIDE THE CITY IN A SIGN OF FEAR THAT REBELLION IN THE
PROVINCES COULD SPREAD TO THE CAPITAL.  RED-BERETED REPUBLICAN GUARD SPECIAL
FORCES TOOK TO THE STREETS, THEIR PRESENCE AN OMINOUS REMINDER TO CITY
RESIDENTS EMBITTERED BY WAR OF THE RESPONSE TO ANY SHOW OF OPEN OPPOSITION
TO PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN.  TRAVELLERS ON THE ROAD TO JORDAN WERE STOPPED
AT THE EDGE OF BAGHDAD BY NERVOUS SOLDIERS AND SUBJECTED TO A THOROUGH
SEARCH.  THE SECURITY CRACKDOWN COINCIDED WITH REPORTS OUTSIDE IRAQ THAT
SADDAM'S TRUSTED REPUBLICAN GUARD WERE CRUSHING A REVOLT IN THE SOUTH AND
IN NORTHERN KURDISH TOWNS FOLLOWING IRAQ'S ROUT IN THE WAR.

THE U.S HAS ANNOUNCED PLANS TO SELL EGYPT $1.6 BILLION IN PLANES AND BOMBS;
ARMS DEALS WORTH OVER $20 BILLION WITH RIYADH ARE ON THE CARDS; U.S.
OFFICIALS SAY SOME WEAPONS SHIPPED TO THE GULF FOR THE WAR WILL BE LEFT
FOR THE SAUDI HOSTS; AND ONE OFFICIAL SAYS SOME SOVIET-BUILT WEAPONS,
CAPTURED FROM IRAQ WILL BE GIVEN TO SYRIA.

THE U.S. MARINE CORPS SAID YESTERDAY THAT A MUSTARD GAS MINE EXPLODED AFTER
BEING HIT BY AN ASSAULT VEHICLE IN KUWAIT EARLY IN THE GROUND WAR, BUT CAUSED
NO INJURY.  CAPTAIN SCOTT CAMPBELL, PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER FOR THE 2ND MARINE
DIVISION, SAID THE BLAST FROM THE MINE AND HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN THAT 
SWEPT ACROSS THE DESERT AFTER THE GROUND WAR BEGAN ON FEBRUARY 24 DISSIPATED
THE DEADLY CHEMICAL QUICKLY.  THE MINE WAS THE ONLY KNOWN INCIDENT INVOLVING
CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN THE SIX-WEEK WAR THAT ENDED IRAQ'S OCCUPATION OF KUWAIT.

THE COST OF THE GULF  WILL BE LESS THAN $70 BILLION, OF WHICH THE U.S.
WILL PAY $15 BILLION IF FOREIGN COMMITMENTS ARE PAID, WHITE HOUSE BUDGET
DIRECTOR RICHARD DARMAN SAID ON TUESDAY.  HE TOLD THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE THAT FOREIGN COMMITMENTS TOTALLED
$54.5 BILLION, LEAVING LESS THAN $15 BILLION FOR THE U.S. TO PICK UP.

SCIENTISTS HAVE DISPLAYED A NEW COMPUTER-ENHANCED VIDEO OF 2.6 MILLION-
SQUARE KM OF VENUS, ROUGHLY THE SIZE OF THE WESTERN U.S.  THE TWO-MINUTE,
37-SECOND VIDEO WAS COMPLIED FROM RADAR PICTURES WAS SENT BACK TO THE SPACE
PROBE MAGELLAN.  IT USES COMPUTER ANIMATION TECHNIQUES TO EXAGGERATE
VALLEY, CRATERS AND VOLCANOES ON THE CLOSEST PLANET TO THE EARTH, SAID
STEVE SAUNDERS A SCIENTIST AT NASA'S JET PROPULSION LABORATORY.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT:  BEATLES FAN BRIAN FAYLOR OF WASHINGTON D.C., PAID
$18,000 FOR THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF PAUL MCCARTNEY! 

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