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Since a serious bombing campaign requires heavy, land-based aircraft--not the sleek little F-18 Hornets and F-14 Tomcats that take off from carrier decks--the Pentagon wants to dispatch 50 warplanes to the region, including fierce, moveable-wing B-1 bombers (which would be making their first combat appearance) and F-15 and F-16 fighters. Marine General Anthony Zinni, the U.S. Central Commander (Norman Schwarzkopf's job during Desert Storm in 1991), spent much of last week in the Gulf region, starting the process of securing bases for the U.S. firepower. Since Saudi Arabia...
...arrange to transfer my friend to the hospital on ER, which is right across town. Those ER doctors cure just about everything with great dispatch, and they're only residents. If some whiny Chicago Hope doctor like Aaron ever tried his kvetching in an ER trauma room, Mark would tell him to pull up his socks or go home...
...consumer-electronics store, somebody got hold of my name and vital numbers and used them to get a duplicate card. That somebody ran up a $3,000 bill, but the nice lady from the fraud division of the credit-card company took care of it with steely digital dispatch. (I filed a short report over the phone. I never lost a cent...
Matt Drudge, the Liz Smith of cyberspace, reported in his E-mail dispatch last week that a White House aide is a wife beater. Bad news for the Drudgester: he now says the story, which initially went out to more than 60,000 readers, is untrue. So he retracted it and apologized...
...Ramseys' actions raised eyebrows among legal experts, who saw the moves as a way to capitalize on tension between the Boulder district attorney's office (which last week said it would dispatch a top assistant D.A. to consult with the FBI in Quantico, Va.) and the besieged local cops. Then too, the Ramseys' well-funded search might have another motive: it could serve the couple well with a future jury pool if one or both is ever charged in court...