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Many troops will experience postwar blues. They will feel a need to repeatedly tell their war stories, describing the hardships they endured. Some will be tempted to go on spending -- and drinking -- binges. Military and civilian family experts caution that returning warriors may feel dissatisfied with home life. Many will be inattentive to or dismissive of family problems. "People who have been on the battlefront have very nearly faced death," says Falk. "Things that may be important to the family may seem trivial to them...
True enough, the tanks and armored cars got tangled up with civilian vehicles. These mostly were driven by Iraqi soldiers bugging out from Kuwait City, carrying along staggering loads of loot and Kuwaiti civilians apparently to be used as hostages; the troopers unwittingly drove smack into a bigger battle than the one they were fleeing. After the war, correspondents did find some cars and trucks with burned bodies, but also many vehicles that had been abandoned. Their occupants had fled on foot, and the American planes often did not fire at them. That some Kuwaiti civilians who had been kidnapped...
During General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's 17-year rule over Chile, few ever doubted the ruthlessness of his military regime. But last week a shocking report from the civilian government that succeeded Pinochet detailed for the first time just how murderous that regime had been. More than 2,000 political opponents were killed, the result of a "systematic policy of extermination" that included torture by electric shock, burning, asphyxiation and rape...
...Sayreville, N.J., three police officers and a civilian were hurt Friday night when a fight between two people in a theater lobby touched off other fights...
...gulf war. The battle lines were drawn early and hammered repeatedly. The Pentagon forced reporters to work in pools and imposed other restrictions on coverage; journalists, naturally, objected that they couldn't do their job. CNN's Peter Arnett and other TV reporters sent back dispatches from Baghdad showing civilian casualties; the public, naturally, complained that such reports were aiding the enemy. CBS correspondent Bob Simon, who had bucked the pools to strike out on his own, was captured, along with three colleagues, by Iraqi soldiers and spent 40 days in captivity before being released in Baghdad last week...