Scholastic Update articles from October 1991

Scholastic Update archives from October 1991

Now for the hard part. (how Operation Desert Storm changed Middle East politics)(includes related survey)
October 4, 1991... It was just after 2 a.m. on August 2 last year when thousands of Iraqi troops swarmed across the border into Kuwait, a tiny oil-rich nation on the Persian Gulf. Within eight hours, Iraq had pummeled Kuwait's amry, stormed the country's...

The Middle East: the world's hot spot.
October 4, 1991... ISRAEL Area: 7,847 sq. mi. Population: 4.9 million (Palestinians in occupied territories not included). Major Ethnic & Religious Groups: Jews, 84%; Arabs, 15%. Economy: U.S. aid of close to $4 billion a year helps Israel...

Unmuddling the Middle East. (Arab-Israeli conflict)
October 4, 1991... The conflict between Arabs and Israelis has been one of the longest and most complex of the 20th century. It has led to four wars, thousands of deaths, and the deep involvement of the United States, the Soviet Union, and other nations. But at...

Middle East peace: where five leaders stand. (Yitzhak Shamir, Yasir Arafat, King Hussein, Hafez al-Assad, Hosni Mubarak)
October 4, 1991... The past year has been one of the most dramatic in the history of the Middle East. Irag's invasion of Kuwait plunged the region into war. Now, out of the ashes of conflict, a chance for peace has been born. In October, if all goes as...

Growing up in a land of conflict. (Middle East)
October 4, 1991... Few people want--or need--peace as much as the young people of the Middle East. An entire generation of young Israelis, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinians have grown up knowing nothing but terrorism, military occupation, and war. What is it like...

The troubled territories. (West Bank, Gaza Strip)
October 4, 1991... If there is ever to be peace in the Middle East, Arabs and Israelis must agree on the future of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel siezed these territories during the Six-Day War of 1967 (see Primer, page 6). Since then, the "occupied...

They gave peace a chance. (Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin)
October 4, 1991... On November 19, 1977, at 8:03 p.m., Egyptian President Anwar el Sadat emerged from his airplane and stepped onto Israeli soil. The moment was electric. Thousands of Israelis cheered him as he entered a limosine and made his way to...

Picking up after the storm. (Persian Gulf War, 1991)
October 4, 1991... When the Gulf War's allied forces rolled over Iraq in March, many people were ready to write an obituary for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. President Bush, along with other world leaders, fully expected outraged Iraqi citizens to rebel against...

Tough choices in the Gulf. (effects of Persian Gulf War)(includes related article on Americans' opinions)
October 4, 1991... SEVEN MONTHS AFTER THE TRIUMPH OF OPERATION Desert Storm, the united States faces troubling new challeges in the Persian Gulf. Despite U.s. efforts to oust him from office, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein still cling to power, unrepentant and...

Coolin' out with Queensryche. (music group guitarist Chris DeGarmo) (interview)
October 4, 1991... What do you listen to when you're in a rebelious mood? Chris: Jane's Addiction or Alice in Chains. I think Guns N' Roses has the patent on rebellion right now. But I just as easily put on Christopher Parketing or Alex DeGrassi, which is a...

The human tide. (the need to help the world's refugees)
October 18, 1991... Imagine having to leave the United States because your family was threatened by war, or drought, or a government that objects to your beliefs. Imagine fleeing to a country that doesn't want you, and having to live in a camp with thousands of...

They ran for their lives. (reports from four teen refugees who came to America)
October 18, 1991... the way we left Ethiopia was pretty traumatic. I was only 5, but I remember because when something shocking happens--even if you're very young--you remember it. My dad had gone to jail for a year and a half because he worked with the...

The agencies of hope. (relief workers help disaster victims)
October 18, 1991... Less than 24 hours after a powerful cyclone devastated the country of Bangladesh last April, Western relief workers were on the scene, assessing the damage and trying to figure out how to help nearly 4 million people who lost their homes in the...

A photographer's journey. (experiences in Sudan)
October 18, 1991... What motivated me to go to Sudan is that other people aren't doing it. Most people don't even know there's a problem. There's a need worldwide to document certain things that the public isn't paying attention to. The first part of the...

Unfair admissions? (treatment of refugees accepted into the U.S.)
October 18, 1991... Life in the Soviet Union was not easy for Ivahn Scheiden. As a Jew in a country rife with anti-Semitism, Scheiden was the victim of verbal and physical abuse, as well as job and housing discrimination. For more than 10 years, Scheiden...

"This is just a waiting place." (life at the refugee camp in Phanat Nikhom, Thailand; includes related article on teens building cultural bridges)
October 18, 1991... PHANAT NIKHOM, Thailand--A group of Hmong tribal women sit by the side of a dusty road, embroidering tapestries. Stitch by stitch, their colorful quilts tell the story of their harrowing journey 15 years ago out of Laos, a tiny war-ravaged...

Spanning the globe. (atlas) (illustration)
October 18, 1991... When the United States went to war in the Middle East this year, the entire nation focused on a region half a world away. Events like the gulf War remind us that beyond the shores of this country, there are people and places whicn profoundly...