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...best trained, the best equipped and the most highly motivated of all Iraqi forces. They are well outfitted with Soviet T-72M tanks, self-propelled 155-mm and 120-mm mortars and long-range guns. They also have Soviet antiaircraft missiles, and can fill the skies with ! antiaircraft flak when attacked. Six of the Guard's nine core divisions are spread in an arc along Kuwait's northern border with Iraq, while one remains in Baghdad to protect Saddam's Baathist government. Their importance to Pentagon planners has been apparent since the second day of the war, when they began...
Silber, for example, is nominally a Democrat, but last year reportedly flirted with the notion of running for governor on the Republican ticket. And he has taken flak for his outspoken style of speaking, alienating many potential liberal supporters...
...hearing has drawn flak from legal scholars and civil libertarians, who charge that the evidence and testimony will not be subjected to the same scrutiny as they would in a trial. The special hearings are expected to end this week, with Wood sentencing Milken soon afterward...
...once the Belle is airborne, it is hard to think of any movie that has more vividly portrayed the sheer terror of being in a big tin can as it is kicked through the skies by flak and assaulted by swarms of fighters. In this, its better half, Memphis Belle achieves something like epic proportions. Out of an authentic emotion -- fear -- it finally forges the kind of unshakable link with an audience that the sweet, stale cliches of male bonding could never sustain...
Club officials said this week that the blunt-spoken Silber--who drew flak during the primary for controversial remarks about minorities, immigrants and the elderly, among others--has alienated so many campus Democrats that the group cannot endorse...