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...while the troops were away. In a survey of firms in seven large cities, 52% are paying their gulf-stationed employees, and 25% of those will continue until the troops are mustered out, according to William M. Mercer, a consulting firm. Even employers who can't be so generous are looking for ways to help. "State law does not allow us to pay the salaries of people who are activated," complains police chief Billy White of Tupelo, Miss., where several cops have been making considerably less as reservists than their $1,800 monthly salaries. "So everybody's been chipping...
...Donald says, he hopes to release a definitive biography of the nation's 16th president published by Simon & Schuster. He has received a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help fund the needed research along...
...greatly advance the Palestinian cause. To King Hussein, any show of disapprobation for Iraq, or endorsement of Allied resolve to liberate Kuwait, would agitate his predomonantly Palestinian subjects and would probably lead to his downfall. To Ali Saleh, president of Yemen, Iraq's annexation of Kuwait would annull the generous low-interest loan of $87 million made to his country by the Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development. Whither the brotherly concern for Kuwait...
...noncombatant. California Congresswoman Barbara Boxer points out that Cheney received a deferment from the Vietnam draft in 1966 because his wife Lynne was pregnant. "You . . . felt that your wife and soon-to-be-born child needed you," Boxer wrote Cheney last week. "Our bill . . . is not even that generous...
...majorities, though the Baathist government of Saddam Hussein is dominated by Sunni Muslims. Tehran's ultimate goal, some analysts say, is to foment a takeover by Baghdad's Shi'ites. If the day ever comes that friendly Shi'ites do control Iraq, Iran might offer the new government a generous gift: say, 100 or so fighters and bombers confiscated during the gulf...