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...warplanes and had actually shot down two. Washington had further hinted that it might attack helicopters flying against the rebels and retaliate, presumably by bombing, if Saddam used chemical weapons or napalm against his own people. But by the end of last week those warnings were exposed as a bluff that did not work. Saddam's forces did use all kinds of aircraft to devastating effect in an assault that Baghdad claimed had recaptured the northern oil center of Kirkuk -- and the U.S. made no attempt to stop them...
...Pine Bluff is...Actually there are no good things to say about Pine Bluff. Rand-McNally named it the worst city in the nation in 1988. ABC News even showed up to film a 20/20 segment. Those who decide to venture into the city anyway should be prepared for the omnipresent stench of the paper mill, the city's only industry...
Although we'll have to wait to pass judgement on Gates, we feel we must call Duke's bluff on one point. Harvard's Afro-Am department is anything but "renowned." "Infamous," maybe, but definitely not "renowned...
...parade of gestures. A tattoo parlor in Houston reports a 40% jump in business, mostly for military designs. A waitress in Rocky Hill, Conn., told her boss he could fire her if he liked, but she would not remove her red, white and blue ribbon. In Pine Bluff, Ark., Deborah Hurt has sent personal letters to nearly 400 fellow Arkansans serving in the gulf. "I had seven brothers; six were in the military, and four served in Vietnam," she says. "I saw what they came home to. I made a promise when I was 16 years...
Some Americans escaped into a wistful fantasy that Saddam Hussein would vanish, the hard way. Said Leigh Ginn of Dallas Bluff, Ga.: "It seems like the CIA has the power to do that. It sounds like I'm a murderer, but goodness, look at the people he's going to murder if there...