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...tiny Saudi army were American. The situation remained dangerously unstable. President Bush vowed not only to defend the Persian Gulf but also to force Saddam to disgorge Kuwait. Saddam formally annexed the Emir's kingdom, dropped all pretenses of a military pullout and called for a holy war to "burn the land under the feet of the aggressive invaders...
...heart, the Kuwaitis held their own through a two-hour artillery barrage. During the battle, the Emir's younger brother Fahd was killed. The Iraqi force assigned to secure the oil rigs off Kuwait's shores saw the most action. Kuwaiti troops and missile boats managed to sink and burn an unknown number of Iraqi landing craft and escort ships. By early afternoon, however, nearly all Kuwait's guns had been silenced. In all, it is estimated that 200 Kuwaitis were killed in the assault. No figure for Iraqi casualties was available...
...atoll was selected because there is no similar facility in the continental U.S. The Army claims that the incinerator's initial tests have been successful. The plant was designed to burn some 13,000 tons of obsolete chemical munitions and containers removed from Okinawa...
...Nixon's show. It will contain only a very careful selection of the presidential papers. The original papers are stored in a government archives in Alexandria, Va. Nixon has succeeded in blocking the release of 150,000 pages of documents. One can understand why a man who failed to burn the White House tapes that eventually doomed his presidency would in later life grow careful about information and its control...
...generally considered his most famous decision: New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, which requires public officials to prove "actual malice" in filing libel suits against publishers and broadcasters. Last year Brennan crafted the majority opinion for a 5-to-4 court decision that upheld the constitutional right to burn the American flag as a form of political protest...