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Americans may have left the remnants of their Wilsonian idealism years ago, somewhere north of the Mekong Delta. They are certainly no longer driven by a desire to "pay any price, bear any burden," as John Kennedy said, to ensure the liberties of others around the world. In a way, the crisis in the gulf brings together a fortuitously crass coincidence of American idealism and materialism; Americans look to punish the aggressor and protect their energy supplies at the same time...
...Continental's controls will be Hollis Harris, who resigned last week as president of Delta Airlines after 36 years with that company. SAS, which is 50% publicly held and 50% owned by the governments of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, faces the task of rebuilding a beaten-down company. The polished Scandinavian firm has made a start. Since last year, it has operated a so-called charm school, a two-day training course, for Continental employees at the company's Houston headquarters. While confirming last week that Lorenzo's departure was an essential condition of the deal, SAS chief Jan Carlzon...
Some parts of the West will remain vulnerable with or without conservation. Southern California gets roughly half of its water from a single canal system, the California Aqueduct, which carries water from the Sacramento River Delta 800 km (500 miles) south to Los Angeles. Mark Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert, an examination of Western water, notes that the delta is sinking by as much as 7.6 cm (3 in.) a year, leaving the area, much of it already below sea level, ever more vulnerable to seawater intrusion. A major earthquake on the nearby Hayward fault could destroy the levees that...
...most forceful complaints about the CDC have been leveled by former Chief of Naval Operations Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. As the Navy's top commander in Vietnam, he ordered that Agent Orange be sprayed in the Mekong Delta region to destroy vegetation from which the Vietcong regularly launched ambushes against U.S. patrol boats. In 1988 Zumwalt's son Elmo III, a former lieutenant who had served in the "brown-water Navy," died from a rare lymphoma. Zumwalt believes his son's exposure to Agent Orange was responsible...
...against the contra rebels. It now looked as if Managua would get more. In neighboring El Salvador, meanwhile, Marxist guerrillas had launched their strongest offensive in years, managing to trap twelve American Green Berets in a luxury hotel. President Bush responded by dispatching a contingent of Delta Force commandos. U.S. intervention seemed a distinct possibility. Then on Nov. 25 came an even greater shock for Washington. An unmarked plane carrying 24 SA-7 surface-to- air missiles crashed in El Salvador. The weapons were intended for the F.M.L.N. guerrillas -- a clear violation of repeated Soviet assurances that surface...