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...week is an advance of men and armor unmatched in speed in the annals of warfare. In addition, more than 7,000 smart bombs and missiles battered the Iraqi leadership's command and control outposts and pounded the tanks and artillery of Saddam's Republican Guard. After prolonged delay, 1,000 members of the U.S.'s 173rd Airborne Brigade parachuted into northern Iraq to open a second front. A senior U.S. official told TIME that U.S. military special operations and CIA paramilitary teams are roaming all over Iraq looking to pick off key Iraqi military and civilian leadership figures...
...there will not only be additional layoffs but longer ones too. Still, you aren't powerless. If you think you might be laid off--and especially if you have already been given notice--there are moves you can make to ease the lean times of joblessness. But don't delay; once you're off the payroll, some of these moves will no longer be possible...
...extent to which it enjoys national, regional and international legitimacy. That, they argue, requires UN supervision of the processes of electing a new leadership and drafting a new constitution. Against that, the hawks will argue that tying up the transition in the inevitably fractious UN process will simply delay the emergence of a democratic, post-Saddam Iraq...
...tournament was delayed two days because of a record snowfall in the Denver area that cancelled flights and prevented some fencers from arriving as scheduled. The Harvard fencers arrived before the snow hit and had to wait out the delay in Colorado Springs...
...years of occupation to rebuild those countries, and Iraq is more akin to Yugoslavia than to Japan. Yugoslavia and Iraq were cobbled together from multiple states of losing empires (Austrian and Ottoman, respectively) after World War I. Even 20 years of U.S. occupation of Iraq, I suspect, would just delay the inevitable wars of secession and ethnic conflict there. I also suspect that future Presidents would not want to spend the money to keep U.S. troops in Iraq for the many years necessary for stabilization. DONALD PELTON Colorado Springs, Colo...