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Unlike the current police chief, Anthony G. Paolillo, who is retiring this spring, the police commissioner will be a civilian appointed from outside the department. The city decided to hire its first-ever commissioner last year, when several city councilors criticized the the department's current leadership structure...
Iraq. Invaded and pillaged Kuwait. Threatened to invade Saudi Arabia. Launched unprovoked, terrorist missile attacks on innocent civilian targets in Israel and called for world-wide terrorist attacks on American interests...
These attacks--on civilian centers--caused more than 75 casualities, including at least three deaths from heart attacks and three deaths--including the death of a three-year-old--from asphyxiation. Israel also endured severe psychological trauma from the constant threat of chemical and biological attack and Hussein's desire to turn Tel Aviv into a "crematorium...
Patrick Clawson, a resident scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, is convinced that the Iraqis "will be in desperate straits by the end of 1991." There is general agreement among civilian experts that the sanctions will inflict severe damage in one to two years. But Clawson adds, "We're seeing a slow deterioration, not a collapse...
...dropped leaflets, to "alter the psychological environment of the battlefield and affect audiences far beyond the confines of the battlefield area." Translation: spread disinformation among the enemy. This unit would also start a free newspaper in liberated Kuwait. If hostilities are carried into Iraq, PSYOP will discourage the civilian population from supporting Saddam's army...