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...relatives were permitted to visit the two in a Baghdad prison, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz hinted that the impasse might be resolved speedily "if the British government shows sympathy toward the hardship of the Iraqi people." Translation: Britain must free $923 million in Iraqi assets frozen since Desert Storm. London has signaled no deal, vowing to keep the funds until Iraq meets United Nations-mandated disarmament and political guidelines. Ride and Wainwright remain hostages...
ONCE A MONTH, AS THE MOON WANES, GEOLOgist Eugene Shoemaker, 64, and his wife Carolyn, 63, leave their house in Flagstaff, Arizona, load warm clothes into their station wagon and set off to the west on an 800-km (500-mile) trip across the desert. Their destination: Palomar Mountain, site of the mighty Hale telescope, among others. There, using a smaller Schmidt telescope, they begin a seven-night stint of sentry duty...
...years after Operation Desert Storm, Saddam is still the bogeyman who will not go away. The new Administration will be examining him with fresh as well as relatively inexperienced eyes. None of Clinton's key foreign policy people -- Aspin, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, CIA chief R. James Woolsey, National Security Adviser W. Anthony Lake -- are Middle East experts. When they begin their Iraq policy review, they will have to rely on the holdover Bush specialists like Dennis Ross, former director of policy planning at State, and Edward Djerejian, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs...
...high school. He saw military service as the path to a better life and seemed well on his way to achieving it. Six months short of completing a four-year tour in the Marine Corps, Private First Class Arroyo, 21 -- who had won a combat-action ribbon during Desert Storm -- pulled duty in Somalia with elements of his California- based regiment. When his night patrol retreated under sudden gunfire near Mogadishu airport last Tuesday, Arroyo was discovered to be missing. His body was recovered within minutes, and he became the first uniformed fatality of Operation Restore Hope...
Nineteen ninety-one also saw Safire predicting that just about everyone this side of Montana would run for president. In March of that year, he even gave campaign advice to General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, saying the Desert Storm hero-ette looked great...