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...melts at 78 degrees F. The average day in the Saudi Arabian desert can peak at a toasty 120 degrees. Result: a sticky problem for G.I.s who crave a little chocolate as they wage a waiting war along the Saudi-Iraqi border. Last week Pennsylvania's Hershey Foods launched an all-out offensive against the candy-killing climate of the Middle East. Its secret weapon: 144,000 Desert Bars. Designed to meet the Army's demand for "heat-resistant" milk chocolate, the Desert Bar approximates the flavor of its home-front cousins, while standing up to temperatures of well over...
...aircraft carrier off the coast of Colombia to monitor suspected drug smugglers? Candidates for political office proffering urine samples and daring their opponents to do the same? The appointment of combative William J. Bennett as the nation's first drug czar, a post from which he would coordinate an all-out assault on a menace that seemed to threaten the very survival...
Even as Harvard backhoes clear the land on the former Gulf station site on Mass. Ave. to make way for a 116-room University hotel, anti-development activists in the city are planning an all-out offensive to force a change in the design of the controversial project...
...domestic costs of Desert Shield, he will not be able to do so for long. The fear of war alone was enough to push financial markets in the U.S., Europe and Japan into a deep slide, a mere foretaste of the worldwide economic disaster that would occur if an all-out war erupted, involving not just the U.S. and Iraq but Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries -- perhaps including Israel -- as well. The call-up of U.S. reserves will remove 40,000 men and women from their families and jobs...
Fearful of the possible impact on the economy -- and profits -- a coalition of business interests is waging an all-out effort to defeat both proposals. Agriculture and logging companies argue that the two initiatives would lead to higher taxes and cost an estimated 75,000 jobs in the timber industry alone. Big Green "could have deleterious impacts on California's ability to compete," says Don Schrack, a spokesman for chemical and other business interests fighting the initiative. "It's an all or nothing initiative that sets up unreasonable standards...