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WHITEWATER: CR: RUTH FREMSON-AP; BUDGET: CR: GREG GIBSON-AP; BOSNIA CR: REUTERS POOL; POPE: CR: RUTILIO ENAMORADO-REUTERS; ISRAEL: CR:JIM HOLLANDER-REUTERS; BUDDHA: CR: ROBERT NICKELSBERG FOR TIME; SIMPSON CR: STEVEN SCHRETZMANN-THE DESERT...
Admittedly, San Diego is a special case. Unlike Boston, the weather proves beach-going at least 300 days of the year; sporting events are rarely rained out; and the allure of hiking in the mountains and the desert is ever-present. Its mayor has decided to invest money in the Chargers rather than pull the symphony out of its $3 million debt...
...military history," says Barnes, "there weren't any fundamental political changes as a result. Saudi Arabia is just as anti-democratic as it was then and Iraq is more repressive than ever." Bush's mistake was compounded, says Barnes, by General Norman Schwarzkopf, who brokered the peace in a desert tent on March 3, 1991. "When Schwarzkopf allowed the Iraqis to put their helicopter gunships back in the air, he basically handed Iraq back to Hussein. Almost immediately he was able to put down insurrections in the north and the south. And when the United States refused to help, that...
...greatest corporate assemblage of military expertise in the world." With 160 full-time employees and some 2,000 retired generals, admirals and other officers on call, it is making a fair claim. Among its most prominent executives are retired four-star General Carl Vuono, who ran the Army during Desert Storm and now heads the company's growing overseas business, and Crosbie ("Butch") Saint, who was once the chief of the Army's operations in Europe and who oversees MPRI's work there. This is the outfit that the U.S. will probably turn to for help in Bosnia...
Perhaps the desert women will be so frozen when they arrive up here that the Crimson can notch another...