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- 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.
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- "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."
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- 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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- 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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- -- Robert L. Miller
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