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...Metropolitan Assembly of God, located in a Do the Right Thing neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., goes all-out to recruit restless teenagers and has a 9,000-student Sunday school. While many of the fastest-growing congregations are young, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Ind., famous for its armada of Sunday-school buses, has been a Fundamentalist fixture for decades...
...able to hoodwink Baghdad into concentrating its forces in the wrong places until the very end. Six of Iraq's 42 divisions were massed along the Kuwaiti coast, guarding against a seaborne invasion. U.S. Marines repeatedly practiced amphibious landings, as conspicuously as possible, and as zero hour approached, an armada of 31 ships swung into position to put them ashore near Kuwait City. The battleships Missouri and Wisconsin took turns, an hour at a time, firing their 16-in. guns at Iraqi shore defenses. It was all a feint; * the war ended with 17,000 Marines still aboard their ships...
...called "killing zones." Working their way across the desert, sector by sector, spotters direct strike planes onto specific targets on the ground. Electronic-warfare planes black out ground-based Iraqi radar, as airborne tankers circle lazily to refuel the fighters that line up behind them. The whole armada is choreographed by controllers in AWACs radar planes, who see everything in the air for more than 200 miles in any direction. The Iraqis in Kuwait, says Captain Jessie Morimoto, a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, have "stopped operating as a national army. What they're doing now is trying to defend...
...force, and virtually every other weapon he has, for climactic battles later on. The planes could be used for terror attacks on Israeli and Saudi cities, where they might cause more death and destruction than the Scuds have to date. Given the strength of the allied air armada, those sorties would amount to suicide missions for some Iraqi pilots, but Saddam might be able to find willing martyrs. There is some speculation that he is already forming an Iraqi kamikaze corps...
There was a historic Memphis Belle, one of the armada of B-17s that bravely, and at terrible cost to both sides, failed to bomb Germany into submission during World War II. There was, as well, a previous movie that took its title from that plane: a documentary about its last mission, which director William Wyler made for the government in 1944. Despite the propaganda imperatives imposed on it, his film was rightly praised for its realistic portrayal...