KUWAIT CITY -- Personnel in the United States Embassy in Kuwait City, Kuwait began destroying files as a standard precaution as reports of Chinese tank formations closing in and the sound of small arms fire drawing near foreshadowed the fall of the tiny sovereign nation.
    President Bush, doing his best to provoke the last great communist power, decried the act as "an attack to democracy and a blow to freedom," when he heard Kuwait's sheikdom had been overthrown. He also announced he was deploying 300,000 US servicemen to Saudi Arabia in what he called "Operation Desert Shield." He explained, "We beleive that every man is born with certain inalienable rights, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and light sweet crude oil under $20 a barrel."
    Vice President Cheney said he and Bush were "ecstatic" and "ready to meet the challenge of another fully televised war, again"