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Late on Saturday in the Persian Gulf, the U.S.S. Nimitz had received no attack order from the Pentagon, but everything was pointing to a confrontation. In contrast to last month, when intelligence information took days to reach the aircraft carrier, the CIA was rushing satellite-reconnaissance photos to the Nimitz's dimly lit combat center in just minutes. Out on the flight deck, pilots in F-14s and F-18s who were executing as many as six sorties a day over southern Iraq reported that Saddam was preparing for an American attack by dispersing his surface-to-air missile batteries...
...underscore the fact, the Pentagon is sending another 32 warplanes to the Gulf, where the aircraft carrier USS George Washington arrived Friday to join the USS Nimitz. And let's not forget the six F-117A stealth fighters arriving in Kuwait. There's more than enough firepower in place now to severely punish Iraq in the event of any interference with the UNSCOM inspections ? the question is, after the events of the last three weeks, will America ever again be diplomatically capable of carrying out an air strike...
...front third of the aircraft was ripped off by an explosion in the center fuel tank. Seconds later, the plummeting remainder was consumed by flames. This was not for the faint of heart, the Bureau's assistant director James Kallstrom warned, but insisted the American people deserved...
...message is that interdependence between the U.S. and Asia is real and growing. Boeing projects that it will sell a third of its aircraft there over the next 20 years. Increasingly, when Asia sneezes, as it did last week in Hong Kong, America will catch cold...
With World War II, the city underwent the first phase of an amazingly swift transformation. The war brought an influx of poor blacks from the South and poor whites from Appalachia to work in the city's shipyards and aircraft plants. Postwar prosperity, good roads and the rise of the suburban dream triggered an exodus of middle-class whites to adjacent Baltimore County, a migration hastened by the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which the court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional. By last year, black children accounted for 85.1% of the city's total...