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- NATION, Page 51American NotesNUPTIALSA Present From a Prince
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- Staff Sergeant Robert Snow of Southington, Conn., gave quite
- a bit in Operation Desert Storm. A land-mine explosion left him
- with a shattered left arm, a broken leg and a collapsed lung.
- Last week Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi Arabian ambassador
- to the U.S., gave quite a bit in return: $100,000, as a wedding
- gift to Snow and his bride Karin Pajor.
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- The prince first heard of Snow in March at Walter Reed
- Army Medical Center, where Bandar was being treated for back
- problems while Snow was recovering from one of more than 12
- operations. When the prince was told of Snow's condition, he
- tried to visit the soldier but was told he was too badly
- injured, and so sent flowers instead. They later met in the
- hospital and remained in touch by letter over the past nine
- months. When Snow and Pajor invited the prince to their wedding,
- he accepted. "The human touch is the most important to me," he
- says. "We get so caught up in heavier issues."
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