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Gelb also labeled Bush's pre-war Middle-East policy as "indifferent and ignorant," saying that in allowing for the build-up of the Iraqi military capability, the administration repeated the policy errors that led to the rise of Manuel Noriega in Panama...
RIGHT now, we Harvard students have the luxury of not having to make a choice about the impending war. For most of us, the military build-up in the Gulf simply does not directly affect our daily lives, so many of us do not feel compelled to take a side. We can run about buying Secret Santa gifts and writing term papers and not realize how close we are to war. But the deadline approaches rapidly...
...keep our forces in Saudi Arabia for long enough, this is the kind of build-up that will inevitably result. We do not want Congresswoman Pat Schroeder to have to start lobbying Arab sheiks to share the burdens of our military expenditures...
...majority also fails to address the massive budget deficit. Many claim that the deficit was caused by Reagan's military build-up. If so, why would the U.S. want to squander an opportunity to cut the deficit in order to fund new and costly social programs...
Robert V. Travers, a traffic attendent atHarvard for 27 years, said that when the gate wasopen in the past, there often was a build-up ofexhaust fumes from trucks driving up to thelibrary. Furthermore, officials found that trucksentering the gate had to make a tight turn...