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...airwaves today. Saddam Hussein made himself Public Enemy No. 1 with his armed robbery of an entire country. As the U.S. rushed to battle stations, an aide to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney exulted, "We're coming on like gangbusters!" And as it turns out, the commander of Operation Desert Shield, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, is the son of the cop turned radio star...
Despite its efficiency in carrying out Operation Desert Shield, the Pentagon is a paper tiger when it comes to penalizing its contractors for fraud and other crimes. Just last February Northrop pleaded guilty to 34 counts of falsifying test results on key parts for cruise missiles and AV-8B Harrier jump jets. In part because of those abuses, the Pentagon banned the company from receiving new contracts. But the Defense Department disclosed last week that it has waived the ban to allow the Navy to buy 104 more Harrier gyroscopes (total price: $300,000), which are made only by Northrop...
...policy would be its checkbook. That isn't good enough in a world menaced by the likes of Saddam Hussein. The burden to be shared in the gulf is not just financial cost; it is also mortal risk. If U.S., Saudi, Egyptian, British and other soldiers die in the desert, Japan's billions will have bought more resentment than gratitude from its partners...
SUIT ENVY. British Aerospace has equipped its gulf-based employees with state- of-the-art protective gear. A British expert contends that the lightweight suits, which have a porous charcoal lining that breathes in the searing desert heat, are "much better than anything our own soldiers or the Americans have...
ENVIRONMENT: In the Arizona desert, a miniature world...