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...comes to actual war, how many Iraqis will fight? If the scrambling retreat of soldiers after Operation Desert Storm is anything to go by, no civilian is going to jeopardize his life. "Everyone will get into a car, pack their TV, gold, clothes and dollars and drive away to the border," Ahmed, a Baghdad businessman says laughing. Iraqis might resent the American intervention - and they do - but there is no great love for Saddam Hussein either. If it looks as though the regime might topple, they will quickly back an alternative. But unless a change in leadership is assured, they...
Sinclair was also the chief civilian administrator at the Harvard University Police Department...
After the war, Weller defied a ban by the U. S. government against visiting the atomic bomb cites in Japan. Weller was the first Western civilian reporter to enter Nagasaki after it was devastated by a nuclear bomb in August...
...does the following scenario sound? The U.S. and its allies roll over Iraq in two to four months, with considerable civilian casualties. Saddam Hussein disappears, and Iraq disintegrates into chaos. The U.S. and its allies are stuck in Iraq for the foreseeable future, trying to hold things together. Meanwhile, the terrorist threat to the U.S. and its allies has become extreme. Not a pretty picture. CHARLES J. BRANDT Belen...
Consider the British aerospace firm BAE Systems. Software developed by Autonomy, based in Cambridge, England, connected BAE's research databases and alerted civilian aircraft engineers to the fact that the wing-construction problem they were working on was also being addressed by the company's military division. Ending this duplication helped the company save millions of dollars...