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...forces shot down two Iraqi jets as they fled to Iran. A British spokesperson said that the 24 hours ending yesterday had seen the heaviest air defences by Iraq in a long time...
...Iraqi tanks and troops smashed into Saudi Arabia's northeast corner early yesterday and were beaten back in "hellacious" fighting by allied forces. Twelve U.S. Marines were reported killed in the heaviest combat of the two-week-old war. Allied losses were described as light, Iraqi casualties as heavy...
Bennett made distinctions between the culpability of each of the five. He implied that the actions of Arizona Republican John McCain and Ohio Democrat John Glenn were not serious enough to warrant punishment. He portrayed Michigan Democrat Donald Riegle as deceptive and suspiciously forgetful. He laid the heaviest blame on California Democrat Alan Cranston and Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini. Cranston, who will undergo cancer treatments this week, has announced that he will not seek re-election. Still, Bennett did not spare any of the five in his six-hour summation...
...Americans. Today the armed forces are filled mainly by recruits from the lower-middle range of the economic scale, regardless of their race. Blacks and other minorities also make up a disproportionate share of the ranks, especially in the Army, the branch of the service likely to face the heaviest casualties in a protracted ground war. Thus the prospect of fighting is causing the fairness question, which dominated the congressional debate on taxes last month, to return in a new form: Will the U.S. be asking its poor and working classes to do most of its fighting and dying...
...intellectual father of the mutual-fund industry. Sharpe, 56, demonstrated that the risks and rewards of holding an asset like stock are linked to its volatility in relation to the rest of the market. For example, highly volatile stocks are the biggest winners in bull markets but suffer the heaviest losses in downturns. Sharpe has cashed in on his insights, running an investment advisory firm whose clients include the pension funds for AT&T and the state of California...