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...with the Iranians back in 1980, trading future concessions for a delay in releasing U.S. hostages until after the election, are about to get a second wind at a most inconvenient time for President Bush. In some of the most vicious political infighting in years, House Democrats are moving, against all-out Republican opposition, to fund an investigation to be headed by Indiana's Lee Hamilton. President Bush reportedly attended a meeting of House Republicans last week in which opposition strategy was discussed. A floor battle and vote are expected this week. Meanwhile, Senate leader George Mitchell is planning...
...With the relentless and continuous use of air power; the all-out armor, airborne and helicopter assault of the 101st Airborne division on 23 February; the clarity of the objective (drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait); the suddenness of the ground attack; the complete absence of compromise with Saddam's increasingly submissive peace proposals leading up to the decision to unleash the ground forces; and with the sweeping flanking movements and attacks through weak points; the President and the Joint Chiefs were clearly committed to the time-honored principles of war: mass, objective, surprise, maneuver, security, economy of force and simplicity...
...understand it. Nothing Blue Man Group does makes much conventional sense. The troupe's 80-minute theater piece, called Tubes, is a potpourri of physical stunts, visual gags, art commentary, audience participation and all-out sensory assault. In the '60s it might have been called a happening; today the preferred term is performance art. Whatever, it is the most talked-about off-Broadway show of the season -- and the most bracingly original...
...watched television over vaction, you couldn't miss the commercials for the Olympic telecast package. The 800 number (1-800-OLYMPIC) was flashed across the screen in an all-out media blitz to sell this cable package before the end of February...
...could read Japanese naval messages. From those, Pacific Fleet commander Chester Nimitz knew that the Japanese planned to seize the eastern approaches to Australia by attacking Port Moresby, on the tail of New Guinea, in the first week in May. Nimitz stripped bare Pearl Harbor's defenses to mount an all-out attack on the Japanese invaders as they entered the Coral...