Word: gaskin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seek a willing, understanding partner, be it Dr. Kevorkian or another like him, to give them moral support when, after all else has failed, they end their suffering. I salute all the doctors brave enough to challenge the law in order to assist those who seek their help. HERMINIA GASKIN New York City...
...will prevail? The gloomiest scenario is also the most controversial. The 1991 assessment designed by retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Robert Gaskin predicts the all-important U.S. air campaign would never get off the ground. Instead, he forecasts that when squadrons of American and South Korean F-16s scramble at a dozen air bases, Scud missiles armed with nerve-gas warheads would slam into the tarmac, effectively shutting down operations. At bases like Osan, the huge U.S. air base 25 miles south of Seoul, North Korean commandos would suddenly appear and shoot up the base's preflight briefing room, killing...
...Gaskin's report sees the entire South Korean front crumbling in as few as three days. Never trained to retreat and regroup, the Southern troops would flee in disorganized panic. North Korean armored columns would then envelop Seoul and drive south toward Taejon, a key crossroad, gobbling up captured oil and gasoline supplies along the way and speeding toward Pusan. As the invaders tear through the countryside, Seoul's lightly armed reserve units would fall to North Korea's tanks and armored personnel carriers. Millions of panicked civilians clog the highways, blocking South Korean reinforcements trying to move north...
...Gaskin's lights, President Clinton is left with three bad choices: mount a Normandy-style invasion from the shores of a reluctant Japan; use atomic weapons on Pyongyang, at the cost of countless civilian lives and the peninsula; or simply throw in the towel. Last week Gaskin defended his three- year-old prognostication: "I don't think it's changed much, except at the margins...
...North Korean army would falter at the first of three defensive lines that begin four miles south of the DMZ, and eventually be repulsed because of the South's superior equipment and air power. But the Pentagon's independent Office of Net Assessment has reached a darker conclusion. Robert Gaskin, former deputy director of that office, says 1979 and 1991 studies figure that the three defensive lines could probably be breached by a determined onslaught of North Korean artillery. If the South Korean defenses did break, the North could probably take the whole of the South in a week...