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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...

Author: By Chris M. Fortunato, | Title: Columnist Blasts Gulf Policy | 4/5/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: By John D. Staines, | Title: Speak While Speech Still Counts | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Getting Too Comfy in the Desert | 10/17/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Dhananjai Shivakumar, | Title: Staff Naive | 2/15/1990 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Erik M. Weitzman, | Title: Yard Gets New Main Auto, Truck Entrance | 11/29/1989 | See Source »

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