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...which were smart--about half were directed against the Republican Guard. Judging from the look of the battlefields today, the bombing was largely surgical. In the open market in Mahmudiyah, five tanks were hit from the air while they were parked in alleyways so narrow that their gun turrets could not be turned. The storefront windows a few feet away were blown out, but otherwise the surrounding buildings are intact. In some cases, the Iraqis attempted to hide tanks and trucks from U.S. planes by parking them underneath freeway overpasses, and even though the vehicles were destroyed by laser-guided...
...landscape south of Baghdad bears evidence of fighting that never happened. Along the sides of roads are thousands of recently constructed earthwork bunkers, trenches and sandbagged gun emplacements, all facing south. Inspection showed that almost none have spent shell casings, cartridges, scorch marks or any of the other normal detritus of war. If they did hold soldiers at any time, the men had left before any shots were fired by or at them. In some places there are still signs of hasty departures: along the roadsides, discarded uniforms and berets; in buildings, scattered maps, manuals and gas masks...
Just as flyers are getting used to the idea that pilots can carry guns in the cockpit, some security experts and pilots are raising a new concern: What about guns not in the cockpit? The Transportation Security Administration demands that when pilots are passengers, their guns be placed in a lockbox and checked into the cargo hold--fully loaded. This flies in the face of the usual law-enforcement practice of not separating man and gun--as well as a 22-year-old aviation-safety regulation that requires all weapons to be unloaded when put into the baggage compartment. Some...
...yesterday. Alternating between two fastballs, a curve and a sinker, Salsgiver featured plenty of movement—hardly the frozen ropes he’s used to uncorking from the outfield grass. Salsgiver threw all the harder from close range, too, clocking out at 91 mph according to one gun. He retired the side in order on seven pitches in the seventh and set down the first two batters of the eighth before being lifted for senior Ryan Tsujikawa...
...home run came after Princeton had tied it on an RBI infield single by Szymanski. With Salsgiver 90 feet away after stealing second and third, Mann hit a fielder’s choice to Mike Chernoff at short, and Chernoff was able to gun Salsgiver down at the plate...