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Ferrer joined TIME in 1963 and soon earned a reputation as one of the magazine's masters of editing. It is a talent he has shared generously over the years, leading many a neophyte writer through the intricacies and nuances of his craft. Says one writer: "Even when you think there isn't room to improve a story, Joe can make it better." Since overseeing TIME's coverage of the 1988 Olympics, Ferrer has worked closely with Prager in nurturing TIME International's growth as well as managing the complex logistics of 10 different editions each week...
...disturbing ones. The most heartening surprise is that losses have been so low. White House officials had braced themselves for the destruction of 100 or more American planes in the first few days: the actual figure lost in combat through the first 17 days was 15, plus seven allied craft. The principal reason, according to Schwarzkopf, is that the allies have so seriously crippled the Iraqi air-defense system that Baghdad has given up all attempts to exercise central control: every antiaircraft and missile battery is on its own trying to track and intercept allied raiders. Then there...
Eager to tune in the overseas news, Americans bought shortwave radios and small portable TVs. Bookstores were jammed, their customers snapping up almost anything about Saddam and the Middle East. In Arlington, Va., Roy's Hobby & Craft Shop was selling the new $16 board game, Kuwait War. Superstitious types were buying crystals and such books as Nostradamus and Armageddon, Oil and the Mideast Crisis...
...campaign will continue and perhaps intensify for days or even weeks, employing craft ranging from Apache helicopters to B-52s and all sizes in between. Once the U.S. and allied forces have won complete control of the skies -- at week's end they were close but not quite there -- they are likely to hammer ever harder at such targets as supply lines and troop concentrations...
Ideally, a fine-line war would be waged, a battle that leaves Iraq powerful enough to defend its own borders but too weak to threaten its neighbors. But attempting to craft such an outcome in advance is asking too much. War is never as clean as planned. More important, if such plans were drawn and executed, a key strategic goal could be crippled. If Saddam is reckless enough to "take" a war, then he will have proved his insanity and his ability to wage battle again ought to be eliminated. Thus the scenario that envisions Saddam suing for peace after...