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Albright will also try to persuade leaders in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to allow U.S. planes based there to take part in any anti-Saddam offensive. So far only Britain, which has sent an aircraft-carrier task force to the gulf, stands firmly with the U.S. on the use of force. Prime Minister Tony Blair, paying an official visit to Washington this week, will repeat that pledge...
...agreed to be a staging ground for the attack ? and that, at least, is good news for Saddam. The lack of a ground-based command-and-control structure, including airstrips and vast support facilities, would affect the scale and scope of an American assault. "If it's a carrier-based attack they won't be able to deliver much firepower," says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. "Not having any ground-based assets forces you to limit the intensity of the attack...
Current Crimson form includes the terms "first-year," "letter carrier" and "chair...
There has been a lot of publicity surrounding the F-117 Stealth fighter, U-2 missions and the U.S. aircraft carrier groups assigned to the Middle East, but what about the squadrons of A-10 Warthogs stationed in Kuwait, only 50 miles from the Iraqi border? We have been patrolling the skies over the no-fly zone in southern Iraq--in harm's way--every day, faithfully, since late 1994. I suppose it's much more glamorous to interview the flight crews on a carrier [WORLD, Nov. 24], but the real story lies with the airmen and ground crews...
Lewis began preparing for this career, quite unwittingly, 20 years ago. She was then a 26-year-old mail carrier living on a friend's ranch near Reno. She had built a greenhouse so that after work she could pursue a lifelong passion for gardening. But she noticed that "everyone was starting to have plants in their houses and offices." She convinced the owner of a Reno restaurant that decorating with some foliage would boost business. With only $1,000 to her name, she borrowed a friend's Volkswagen bus, drove to San Francisco and bought pots of greenery, which...