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...SMART BOMB DOWN THE SMOKESTACK of the financial part of the Cali cartel's operations," said U.S. Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger. ! The Desert Storm terminology seemed at odds with the central metaphor of Operation Green Ice, the international drug bust that broke up the complex financial infrastructure of Colombia's premier cocaine cartel. But the effect was at least as impressive. Law-enforcement officials from the U.S. and seven other nations coordinated an assault of unprecedented depth and scope on Cali's network of money managers and distributors. At week's end, more than 165 people had been arrested...
These actions, while lacking the glamour of Desert Storm, will help accomplish what Bush labeled as the main principle of Desert Storm and the centerpiece of the New World Order: the turning back of aggression...
...COLD WAR IS PROVING TO BE A dangerous passage for all concerned: winners, losers and bystanders. Two years ago, Saddam Hussein concluded that the demise of the Soviet Union as a superpower had created a regional vacuum he could fill. The result was the invasion of Kuwait and Desert Storm. Last year a clique of Serbian Marxists tried to maintain its authority over other South Slavs who no longer needed Belgrade to protect them from Moscow. The result was the Balkan cataclysm...
...without declaring martial law, even the military cannot impose its will on a civilian area. Unlike Desert Storm, there is no unified command, no General Norman Schwarzkopf. The Army, for instance, promised to have tent cities for 20,000 up and running by the first weekend after Andrew. But for the next week military and local jurisdictions quarreled over sites, facilities, building codes and, in the case of Florida City -- a city virtually wiped out by the hurricane -- a federal demand to kick in 10% of the cost...
...environmental-impa ct statement from MERCO. "We're trading a few short-term jobs for our way of life," argues antisludge organizer Linda Lynch. Supporters retort that the sludge will eventually revitalize depleted rangelands. Exxon station owner Andy Virdell, who has seen other ventures die in the hardscrabble desert, is ecstatic. "Sure, we'd rather have an electronics plant here," he says, "but in this economy we have to be thankful for anything...