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Cavalry and armored divisions were shipping out from Fort Hood, Texas. A lawyer in nearby Killeen executed wills and powers of attorney free of charge. A pawnshop announced it was willing to hold items for a year without charge to soldiers going to the gulf. In Memphis a radio station sponsored an "Iraq-no- phobia" gasoline sale in which a service station, its attendants dressed like Arabs, offered gas for 50 cents...
...farfetched. In a region rife with dissolute and spendthrift rulers, he is admired for his austere and disciplined habits. "He has no palaces, no Swiss bank accounts," says Major General Yusuf Kawash, a retired member of the Jordanian army. Saddam has positioned himself as an avenging Robin Hood, intent upon stealing the wealth of the affluent but uncaring gulf states and redistributing it to the impoverished Arab masses. Jordan's Hussein reinforced that reasoning early last week, when he said that the crisis was "redrawing boundaries between the haves and the have-nots...
Opponents have dubbed Florio "Robin Hood" for his overt redistribution of the tax burden, but the Governor is unapologetic. "Something historically significant is happening here," he boasted after his legislative victories. "This is a day we bring fairness to the children of New Jersey and to the beleaguered and besieged middle class." "Hardly," countered Assembly * minority leader Garabed Haytaian, who assails the new budget as a "farce, a tragedy of tax increases that will give us a Florio recession...
With a wolf that eats a grandmother and a little girl who gets into mortal trouble by talking with a stranger, the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood reeks of violence and veiled sexual terrors. But when a version of the story by Trina Schart Hyman reached Culver City, Calif., last fall, school officials thought they sniffed something really troubling: an implied endorsement of alcohol...
...Hyman's rendering, republished by Houghton-Mifflin in 1989, the items that Red Riding Hood carries to her grandmother include wine that, the text says, would "do her a world of good." Worse, once Grandma drinks some, she not only feels "strong and healthy" but also displays, in an illustration, a red nose. Though the book is on the state's list of recommended reading for five- and six-year-olds, shocked officials (while not banning Little Red Riding Hood itself) eliminated this version. Explained spokeswoman Vera Jashi: "We have a very strong alcohol- and drug-abuse program...