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Just before Operation Desert Storm began, the cold war formally ended and , the Pentagon was about to take some cuts. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney plans to trim the Army 31% over the next five years, the Navy 13%, the Air Force 28% and the Marines 14%. Taken together, those projected reductions will lop off 500,000 men and women -- or about the size of the force in the gulf -- from the 2.1 million now in uniform...
...Stephen and Maureen Reynolds decided to buy their first home -- a four- bedroom, two-bath, 30-year-old house on a scenic lot overlooking a ravine -- as soon as they saw that the Desert Storm air campaign was a roaring success. Reynolds, who designs travel-industry software for a Houston firm, figured that if the war was going that well, his job was safe. Says he: "Interest rates were good, we had finally saved up the money, the war was coming to a quick close, housing prices were rising. The future is looking a lot better...
Call it the Desert Storm surge. According to TIME/CNN polls conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, the percentage of Americans who think the U.S. is pulling out of recession jumped from 31% four weeks ago to 54% last week. More dramatically, 44% of those polled said last week they expect economic conditions to get better in the coming year, while 15% expect them to become worse; those proportions have almost exactly reversed since January (see chart). Real estate agent Christine Gainey-Colombo was so discouraged by the industry slump in northern New Jersey that just a few months...
...less if Japan, Germany and others honor their pledges of financial support). That Saddam Hussein should have been so cartoon-villainous (and incompetent as a military leader). That his soldiers should have committed atrocities that took the moral onus off the carnage that the coalition left in the desert...
...come home from the gulf started pouring off transports. A trooper arrived at J.F.K. airport and said, "We're proud of what we done. We know we done the right thing." At Hunter Army Airfield in southern Georgia, 104 troops of the 24th Infantry Division, still dressed in desert camouflage, climbed off the plane in the middle of the night to a raucous celebration in which military discipline instantly fell apart. Friends and relatives swarmed onto the field to engulf the soldiers. A trooper protested a brief military formation by shouting: "The women are waiting, and the beer is cold...