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...blast, a group calling itself the Liberation Army Fifth Battalion claimed responsibility and attributed the attack to anger with U.S. support for Israel. Authorities had verified that the letter was written by one of the suspects in custody, the newspaper said. The letter threatened additional attacks against civilian, military and "nuclear targets," unless the U.S. severed relations with Israel and ended interference in the internal affairs of Middle Eastern countries...
...result, Saddam's power base remains solid. Postwar clashes with the armed and dangerous Kurds and Shi'ites alarmed the minority Sunnis, who provide the bulk of Saddam's military and civilian support. "When things threaten to fall apart," says Baghdad novelist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, "you stick with the man who can hold it together. Saddam was the one man who could make the center hold...
...alumni said they were personally affronted by Mansfield's comments. Asked about the professor's statements, William F. Kuntz II '72, a partner in a Wall Street law firm, proceeded to recite his resume, which included three post-graduate degrees and a stint on New York City's police civilian review board...
...military installations as well as the curtailment of 134 others -- a plan that is eventually expected to save more than $3 billion a year. Most will occur in California, where three bases in addition to those in Alameda will close. The Pentagon says 16,000 military and 15,000 civilian jobs will be directly cut in the state, but California Governor Pete Wilson says the ripple effect will mean that more than 300,000 jobs will be lost -- a cruel blow to a state already suffering the worst unemployment in the nation...
Across the country, the closings will have both an economic and a psychological impact, especially in the short term as communities struggle to find ways to convert the properties to civilian use. Predictably, politicians from affected areas were quick to squawk. "It could bring economic devastation to the area," said Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, which is scheduled to lose its Charleston Naval Station. But Congress has cleverly set up a system that allows the Pentagon to push through its closures while insulating legislators from much of the responsibility or political fallout. In 1990 it established an eight-member...