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...political have raged there forever, and another is blowing this summer. Mathers will survive as he always has, with hard work, shrewd calculation. He and those like him may be the future of this vast and troubled land, which seems to be stumbling back in time toward a recast frontier where grass will be king, some buffalo may actually roam again, and man will be in the minority...
...military confrontation in the gulf seems to be congealing into a 1990 version of the sitzkrieg. As Germany did after blitzing Poland, Saddam is consolidating his position and gazing across the frontier as his foes assemble their armies. His 56-division, 1.5 million-man force -- last week he called up his reserves -- is clearly on the defensive. In occupied Kuwait his soldiers are digging in. Elite Republican Guard units have been pulled back to join 15 divisions deployed to protect Basra and Baghdad -- or perhaps Saddam himself...
...year mandate to battle racketeering. Carmine and Vincent have been banned forever, yet some crime fighters say this has left brother Peter to call the shots. In reality, little has changed. Earlier this month, the frustrated trustee, attorney Frank Wohl, issued a blistering report about the fish market's "frontier atmosphere." He blames New York City for failing to regulate the market, a charge that has endured for a half-century...
...Frontier girl? New woman? As Burns sees it, a little of both. "Cripple Creek was a free-spirited place to grow up," she says. "Neither my mother nor the community ever revealed any prejudice to me, and I never saw any until I got to Syracuse." So what others may see as new is natural to her. "It's hard to have emotional ties in a new job," she observes. "What I got at Vassar was a bonding to Lauder. You know why? What we all wore there was sweats and T shirts. Everyone. I loved that equality...
...humiliation at Geneva. Saddam began to pull his troops back from the border last week, but he is not nearly through with his tiny neighbor. Among his demands are $2.4 billion in compensation for oil he claims Kuwait has pumped from Iraqi territory, along the countries' disputed 100-mile frontier. Saddam also wants Kuwait to forgive Iraq's war loans and lease or cede to Baghdad the strategic island of Bubiyan, a large sandbar in the Persian Gulf that blocks much of Iraq's paltry 18 miles of shoreline. No one believes Iraq is actually eager to invade Kuwait...