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Talk about faith in the future. Remember the baby boom? That started when America's fighting men returned from World War II. Now, eight months after the first soldiers, sailors and airmen returned victorious from Operation Desert Storm, military bases from San Diego to North Carolina are bracing for their own baby boomlet. Since the troops got home, positive pregnancy tests have tripled at Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The expectant mothers include Desert Storm vets -- five of the six women in one unit. In San Diego 318 Marine wives have been sent to community hospitals...
Rescue attempts are emotionally satisfying but rarely successful. Carter's catastrophe in the Iranian desert cast a shadow over later U.S. plans. A scheme for rescuing the 39 passengers and crew hijacked aboard TWA Flight 847 in 1985 was bungled or never got off the ground...
Argentines are hopping mad. Turns out their government has been negotiating the use of the Patagonian desert in southeastern Argentina as a dumping ground for the world's human and industrial wastes. First France signed up; then came news that a New Jersey company, ironically named the Environmental Development Corp., was hoping to send 200,000 tons of treated sewage a year. Argentines figure they have enough of their...
Tuesday: L'Age D'Or with Lya Lys, Gaston Modot and Max Ernst, at 5:15, 8 p.m. Simon of the Desert with Silvia Pinal, Claudio Brook...
...Desert Fox," however, was far from finished. Orchestrating an intricate withdrawal, he then prepared for a counterattack. Hitler sent him an entire air corps, detached from the Russian front. The two divisions of the Afrika Korps were resupplied and refreshed, and in June 1942 Rommel captured Tobruk -- earning from the Fuhrer the rank of field marshal. Egypt, Suez and the oil of the Middle East now seemed within his grasp. Hitler, warned by more cautious advisers to be wary about proceeding toward Cairo, nonetheless ordered that operations "be continued until the British forces are completely annihilated . . . The goddess of fortune...