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After a flustered first half at Cumnock Field which saw the Rams grab a 1-0 lead, the Crimson pulled together to come back and win its season opener, 2-1, on a game-winning goal by junior Sandra Whyte with 13 minutes remaining in the contest. Rachel Burke also tallied for the hometown squad...
...cooperation against a nation that had long been an ally of the Kremlin's would have been inconceivable. But their new quasi alliance is the most striking, though very far from the only example of a proposition that has gathered force over the past six weeks: Saddam's power grab and the U.S.-led opposition to it have so shaken up global political and power calculations that the world will never be the same...
PRINCE: GRAFFITI BRIDGE (Warner Bros.). The movie -- a sequel to 1984's Purple Rain -- is not out until October, but this funked-out, sizzling soundtrack won't wait that long. Sensual and spiritual: better grab it fast...
...conservatives are especially critical of the President's insistence that Iraq's power grab poses such a danger to global stability that it must be reversed. In Carpenter's view, only direct threats to America's physical survival, political independence or democratic freedoms justify the use of force. Says he: "The possibility of higher oil prices arising from a stronger Iraqi position in the Middle East does not meet that standard." Though most support the naval blockade and diplomatic pressure on Iraq, Buchanan and his cohort are unanimously opposed to a large-scale ground offensive to force Saddam to surrender...
...allegation drew a hurt and incredulous response from the Kremlin, which asserts that it has only 193 "military specialists" in Iraq who teach how to use and maintain Soviet-built armaments but do not give operational advice. Just four days after the Iraqi land grab, however, a Soviet spokesman gave a different figure: about 1,000. The discrepancy aroused suspicions of Soviet fudging. U.S. intelligence officials supported an estimate of 500 to 1,000 advisers, but were convinced that the technicians were not at a level high enough to justify a big fuss, though naturally Washington would rather they went...