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...groups more successfully than any other community. Further, we have in common a system that -- for all its serious flaws and < injustices -- has shown an unprecedented ability to correct itself. Certainly we must become more aware of other cultures and their contributions. But the top priority should be to equip children for life in the modern world, to preserve and expand the unity America needs to function better, for the sake of all, and to avoid the destructive effects of intellectual tribalism...
...48th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Georgia National Guard appears to exemplify all that can go wrong with the Total Force policy. Some $40 million a year was spent to train and equip the 48th, which was considered a crack Guard unit. In the event of war, it was scheduled to augment the regular Army's 24th Mechanized Infantry Division. Said General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the 24th before he was tapped to lead Desert Storm: "I expect them to fight alongside us. They are, in fact, combat ready...
CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS. "Our responsibility is very small," Vitali Naumkin, the deputy director of Moscow's Institute of Oriental Studies, says today, adding that no one bears "entire responsibility." Fair enough. But Moscow led the charge to equip Saddam. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 80% of the major weapons systems procured by Iraq between 1980 and '89 came from three of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council: the Soviet Union, France and China. Moscow alone supplied...
...weeks. While Finance Minister Khalifa conceived the project and continues to monitor its progress, the day- to-day work is being directed by Fawzi al-Sultan, a Yale-educated Kuwaiti who has been a World Bank executive director since 1984. Every conceivable need is being addressed. Enough material to equip eight hospitals and a score of clinics, for example, is being purchased from U.S. and European medical- supply companies...
...Although Arens has boasted that "we are in a position to knock out of the air any Iraqi plane that may be coming our way," his country's air defenses are largely helpless against Iraqi missiles. And even though some Israeli officials believe Saddam may indeed have managed to equip those missiles with primitive chemical warheads -- contrary to Arens' assertion a few weeks ago -- the government still refuses to issue gas masks to the civilian population...