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...whatever bombs or missiles happened to be available on the flight deck, rather than waiting for the ship's slow elevators to bring up ordnance specifically chosen for their mission. Pilot after pilot described attacks in which, after the first tank in a column was hit, the crews would abandon the others and set out on foot for home. Correspondents touring the road at week's end found mile after mile of blasted, twisted, burned, shattered tanks, trucks and other vehicles, many still incongruously carrying loot from Kuwait City: children's toys, carpets, television sets. Those Iraqi soldiers who reached...
Some Governors have pledged never to raise taxes and are instead cutting back on government spending. Others have resorted to tax increases while vowing not to abandon government's role of social engineer. But what many of these executives have in common is that they are wrapping their plans in the mantle of moral courage. "Let us make history as well as headlines by reinventing the way state government functions in this cradle of democratic capitalism," said William F. Weld, the newly elected Republican Governor of Massachusetts, in his inaugural address. From the ornate chamber of Connecticut's General Assembly...
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell is about to abandon his cooperative relationship with House Speaker Tom Foley over the issue of a cut in the Social Security payroll tax. Last year both leaders blocked the measure because they feared the tax-revenue loss might aggravate the budget deficit. Now Mitchell has changed his mind because he feels Democrats must do something to attract middle-class voters. With his support, a bill mandating a hefty $60 billion cut in the tax should pass easily this session in both houses...
...very proud of our history and our heritage, and that is why we all live on the hope of uniting together one day--to restore our pride and our lost throne. That is the source of Pan-Arabism; that is what your naive conscience betrayed and chose to abandon...
...next phase of the game. When this battle was joined on Jan. 16, Saddam had two major assets: the ability to conquer other countries and, in his occupation of Kuwait, proof of his willingness to do so. He has already lost much of the first, and he may abandon all of the second. If so, the coalition can deprive him of a third asset, his political appeal as a martyr, by ending hostilities...