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Also on Nov. 21, a 24-year-old man was arrested on a warrant for assault and battery after being stopped for having purchased alcohol for minors who were waiting in a vehicle...
...late 1980s, Louis admitted making illegal campaign contributions. He also participated in an FBI sting that led to the conviction of a county councilman. Another brother, Joseph, 43, was arrested and charged with kidnapping and raping a 27-year-old woman in 1991. He later pleaded guilty to assault, imprisonment and unlawful sexual contact...
Pentagon officials have no plans to send troops to the region beyond the 2,100 Marines already there with an amphibious-assault group. That is why, when the Washington started for the Persian Gulf--it will arrive later this week, though its attack planes will be in range much sooner--13 of the 18 vessels in its battle group stayed behind. The Pentagon is planning to use air power alone--escalating waves of ship- and submarine-launched missiles and aircraft-based missiles and bombs--to shove Saddam back into compliance. "I don't think anybody's looking at days...
...pulverized in 1991 but steadily rebuilt in the years since. Because the strategy is to make the targets "proportional"--that is, linked to the weapons of mass destruction that have precipitated this mess--the Pentagon is leaning against bombing Saddam's dozens of palaces or waging an all-out assault on his Republican Guard, although locations and Guard units thought to be harboring biological weapons will be hit. They won't target Saddam--"but if we get him by luck," says a ranking Air Force officer, "that's cool...
...aftershock of the CIA-case conviction hit in Karachi, Pakistan, where four American auditors were shot to death, along with their driver, as they went to work at the local office of Union Texas Petroleum. In morning rush-hour traffic, two gunmen with assault rifles pulled up beside the Americans' station wagon, got out and riddled them with bullets, then drove away. It could have been a replay of the way Kasi killed two people and wounded three as they waited to make the turn into CIA headquarters one morning almost five years ago. A Pakistani group calling itself...