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...President is attempting to appear above the fray. In declaring military success, he stressed that this was "not a time to gloat." Yet even as Bush's victory address was being composed, his chief of staff, John Sununu, was meeting with the half a dozen top Republicans who help plot political strategy and are known informally as the Wednesday Group. The day after the speech, Sununu summoned Republican lawmakers to the White House to consider ways to link Bush's foreign success to his domestic policy...
...firms have prevailed as decisively as American troops did on the battlefield. Conspicuously absent from the fray: bidders from Japan and Germany, whose soldiers stayed home from the fighting (see box). Huddled in hotel rooms in Saudi Arabia with officials of Kuwait's government-in-exile, executives of U.S. companies have won 70% of initial awards for emergency services during the first three months of rebuilding. Such tasks as putting out oil fires and restoring water and power to blasted buildings could cost more than $500 million during this period. As part of the effort, Kuwait awarded the U.S. Army...
Despite the specific political and social history that surrounds the Persian Gulf, scholars who study a variety of regions have added their thoughts to the fray. Given the increasing study of international conflict as a discipline in itself, this kind of collaboration is no surprise...
...addition of Israel to the already escalating fray in the Middle East threatens to complicate relations among the coalition opposing Iraq, scholars said. That alliance, led by the United States, includes several Arab nations that have not recognized Israel's sovereignty and might not be willing to become allies with the nation, Wright explained...
This time around, even Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan jumped into the fray. Citing hundreds of angry letters and calls from citizens, Lujan said he wanted to keep the Yosemite Park and Curry concessionaire in the hands of Americans. MCA will be given a year to find an American buyer...