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...bill would continue to give an overwhelming preference to those with close relatives in the U.S. To the delight of human-rights activists, the proposed measure would also lift the McCarthy-era blanket bans on Communists and homosexuals. And in another break with current practice, the Department of Health and Human Services has been empowered, at its discretion, to end the ban on AIDS-infected foreigners seeking to enter...
...maybe your relationship is nice, but not great. Maybe it's convenient to maintain, but not really worth all the aggravation. Maybe you're just a first-year--or even worse, an upperclass student--just lugging around an old high school flame like a tired old security blanket...
...area that has been completely leveled. F-117A fighter-bombers take out Iraqi antiaircraft missiles. Tomahawk cruise missiles from the battleship Wisconsin hit communications centers, truck junctions, munitions depots. B-52 bombers blast targets with highly accurate missiles. Most important, a variety of weapons * throw a suffocating "electronic blanket" over the area, jamming and disrupting Iraqi military communications (but not U.S. communications, which operate on different frequencies...
...north. Nor is there any ground fighting, at least initially. The Iraqi troops in Kuwait are totally cut off from the main army in Iraq proper. No supplies or reinforcements can reach them through the "death zone"; no radio messages or other communications can penetrate the electronic blanket. The Iraqis quickly withdraw -- or if they do not, U.S. airborne and amphibious assaults coupled with a ground attack flanking Kuwait break them up quickly (a lot of Iraqi tanks are destroyed by air raids too). In the most optimistic scenario, Saddam Hussein's generals depose him and sue for peace...
...surrounding hills are filled with caves, where the Palestinian activists often hide. One moonlit night, some months after our talk, a young collaborator led Israeli soldiers to the bush that concealed the cave where Mahmoud had set up a cozy apartment, with mattress and blanket, a lantern and jars of olives. Mahmoud is now in an Israeli jail...