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...black night heat, brilliant tungsten lamps spotlighted ranks of Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Humvees lining the draw yard at Camp Doha, as the first of 3,500 jet-lagged soldiers from Texas slung their gear aboard and revved the engines for the long drive into the desert. They were on a "combat time line," moving straight into battle position as if Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard troops were really advancing. "We are here to send a signal, and that signal is 'We are ready,'" said Colonel Robert C. Pollard. With its buildup in Kuwait last week...
...last week, to borrow an old Chicago convention phrase, the whole world was watching. As it became clear to Morris on Wednesday what the Star was planning to print, he contacted several White House aides, including press secretary Mike McCurry, who was aboard Clinton's campaign train, the 21st Century Express. McCurry urged Morris not to fill him in on details. That way, when reporters asked for confirmation, McCurry could honestly claim not to know...
...Aboard the Swing State Choochoo, Clinton nears. Then, finally, a juicy scoop appears: Dick Morris may have frolicked with a hooker. The press explodes. The talk shows try to book her. Although the story hardly overwhelms (Can this be worse than what he did for Helms?), The critics say it shows that sleaze pervades The Friends of Bill. Surviving White House aides Who loathe our Dick in varying degrees'll Confide, "We told you so: the man's a weasel." The Prez won't choke; for him this is routine. He'll smoothly give the longest speech we've seen...
...found any residue of other chemicals they would expect to see if there had been a bomb. The official adds that investigators are still considering innocent explanations for the presence of the petn: the tiny trace could, for example, have come from the bag or boot of a person aboard the plane who had worked with the explosives. Investigators also insist that they have not ruled out mechanical failure as a possibility and have sent portions of the plane to NASA experts who handled the Challenger explosion for further study...
...could defect. After several hours of negotiations at London's Stanstad Airport which brought the Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Refugees, and the Iraqi Community Association of London into the loop, the hijackers, pleading for political asylum, gave themselves up without harming any of the 199 people aboard. "It was such a low-key hijacking, it hasn't gotten people terribly excited," says TIME's Helen Gibson in London."The hijackers simply didn't want to go back to Iraq. They would rather face the relatively luxurious British social security system with its dole and housing benefits than...