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...Nations forces assigned to referee the carnage. The reason why is the extremely incisive point of the whole exercise. In The Largest Theme Park in the World, Ballard looks ahead past the planned 1992 economic unification of Europe to 1995, when many of the Continent's citizens decide to extend their Mediterranean summer vacations year-round...
Timed to coincide with this week's Senate Commerce Committee hearings on proposals to extend government control over the cable industry, the letter bitterly criticized signal quality, response to service requests and "dramatic" rate increases. "Under the current statutory framework, we lack the authority to address many of these complaints," said the signers, led by Mayors Sharpe James of Newark, Maynard Jackson of Atlanta and Raymond Flynn of Boston...
...stringent enough to prevent catastrophic accidents. Forty years ago, "these nuclear plants, after concerted study, were granted a finite number of years to operate," says M.I.T. physicist Henry Kendall, who shared a Nobel Prize last year for discovering subatomic particles called quarks. "Now the industry wants to extend that time by 20 years. They're changing the rules of the game." Nuclear officials dispute the charge, pointing out that the 1954 Atomic Energy Act contained provisions for license renewal...
...piled up barriers and filled ditches with oil. Attackers were to be channeled into killing zones targeted by Iraqi artillery, which was the strongest weapon Iraq had used against Iran. This time the static defense did not hold. Preoccupied with hanging on to newly conquered Kuwait, Saddam did not extend his fortifications more than a few miles beyond the Saudi-Kuwaiti border. Coalition forces easily outflanked the "Saddam line." Even along the gulf coast, where U.S. and Saudi troops did attack straight north into Kuwait, Iraq's war-weary, underfed frontline army lacked the will to man the barricades...
Saddam was so preoccupied with the defense of Kuwait that he did not extend his defensive line of berms, razor wire and mines more than a few miles west of the Kuwait frontier that faces Saudi Arabia. The struggle for Kuwait, he said in January, would finally depend on "the soldier who comes with rifle and bayonet to fight the soldier in the battle trench." In that, he boasted, "we are people with experience...