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...Saudis believe that the U.S. won't try to go to war without them. But in the war rooms inside the Pentagon and at Central Command in Tampa, Fla., military strategists no longer think the U.S. needs the Saudis to dislodge Saddam. Strategists say a war against Iraq would require as many as 200,000 troops, with forces launching from Kuwait, Turkey and the smaller gulf emirates, reinforced by a massive U.S. Navy and Marine presence. The U.S. already has 10,000 Army troops at Kuwait's Camp Doha, where the Pentagon has stored tanks and other weapons. Some...
DIED. ALAN LOMAX, 87, folk-music collector who helped discover Woodie Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters and others; in Sarasota, Fla. Described as "a missionary" by Bob Dylan, Lomax brought American folk music to the rest of the world, influencing the British skiffle craze of the 1950s, which gave rise to the Quarrymen, led by a young John Lennon...
DIED. COLONEL FLOYD J. THOMPSON, 69, the longest-serving prisoner of war in American history; of unknown causes; in Key West, Fla. After his plane was shot down in northern South Vietnam in 1964, Thompson endured physical and mental torture, including being hung by his thumbs, and five years in solitary. He stayed sane, he said, by building an imaginary house he and his wife would live in once he was freed by the Viet Cong--which he finally was, after nine years...
...similar savings in the mass production of its Vistakon line of disposable contact lenses. At the time Johnson & Johnson was manufacturing contact lenses using a system that required multiple operators and took up the space of five single-file Greyhound buses. Kok visited the firm's factory in Jacksonville, Fla., and then--on an airline napkin--sketched an invention that would manufacture the lenses in a space about half a bus long, with only a single machine operator. To cut costs further, Kok and his team developed a way of quickly changing the many molds needed to cover the whole...
...Saudis believe that the U.S. won't try to go to war without them. But in the war rooms inside the Pentagon and at Central Command in Tampa, Fla., military strategists no longer think the U.S. needs the Saudis to dislodge Saddam. Strategists say a war against Iraq would require as many as 200,000 troops, with forces launching from Kuwait, Turkey and the smaller gulf emirates, reinforced by a massive U.S. Navy and Marine presence. The U.S. already has 10,000 Army troops at Kuwait's Camp Doha, where the Pentagon has stored tanks and other weapons. Some...