Word: armorers
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...fierce, glaring authority of Doge Andrea Gritti; the plump self-assurance of the Florentine historian Benedetto Varchi; the saurian cunning of old Pope Paul III, huddled in his velvet cape; and the inflexible determination of the military commander Francesco Maria della Rovere, whose carapace of bombshell-black armor is painted with a freedom and virtuosity that looks forward to Velazquez and, beyond him, to Manet -- to scan these portraits is to realize what an appetite for human character Titian had, and what a gallery of it he created...
...tons of equipment have followed. But senior officers say they still need another month or two of rapid buildup to reach adequate defensive strength. Only last week, 22 days after Operation Desert Shield got under way, did the first M-1 tanks, which would be essential for fighting Iraqi armor, arrive at Saudi ports...
...would try to minimize casualties by avoiding a direct lunge into Kuwait and thus a head-on clash with Iraqi armor in the narrow coastal strip. An American offensive would rely heavily on aerial bombing; ground troops would probably flank Iraqi forces by swinging 100 miles inland and stage night + attacks, for which they are much better trained and equipped. Admiral William Crowe, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has no doubt that the U.S. would defeat Iraq -- "but at a terrible price...
...natural cover, and tanks can be spotted readily by the tall, brown columns of dust they raise. These forces would be vulnerable to F-16s, Saudi and British Tornados, and possibly F-111s now on station in Turkey, carrying 2,000-lb. laser-guided bombs and Maverick missiles. Armored, low-flying A-10 Thunderbolts would riddle the tanks with armor-piercing depleted-uranium slugs from rapid-fire guns...
...cracks in Bush's armor are only of the hairline variety. A TIME/ CNN poll, conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, gave him a robust job-approval rate of 61%. But that is down 9 points since April. More troubling for the White House is a dive in confidence in Bush's ability to maintain prosperity. In February's survey, 60% of Americans described the economy as very good or fairly good. That figure dipped to 49% last week. In the earlier poll, respondents liked Bush's handling of the economy, 55% to 36%. The new figures show...