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...probable U.S. and allied attack strategy: U.S. and Arab troops may stage frontal assaults to keep Iraqi troops pinned down and launch a secondary thrust along the Persian Gulf coast. But the main assault could be a left hook: an attack around the western tip of Kuwait into Iraq proper, looping back to cut off the dug-in troops. As for tactics, the primary way to breach the fortifications would be simply to try to blast a way through with aerial bombs. If that does not work, combat engineers would use "line charges" -- bombs thrown out on cables to form...
...persuasive corporate advertising as well. Sonyland will feature the products of its parent company and its motion-picture subsidiary. The opening date, location and specific amusements of Sonyland remain a mystery. One of the rumored attractions: a ride featuring the pirate ship from Columbia's forthcoming movie Hook, a Steven Spielberg sequel to Peter...
...49ers extended their advantage to 66-58 with five minutes remaining in regulation on a 10-2 run. Cutler's two free throws and hook shot started the run and then the heartbreakers, a pair of three-point jumpers by Ronnie Winbush and Lucious Harris. Harris led Long Beach State with 28 points on 10-for-21 shooting...
...school lists like Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill, and the names of sons of foreign rulers, but there are also, no doubt, future Guy Burgesses, George Orwells and other eccentric mavericks. One of the proudest and most legendary of all Old Etonians, after all, was known as Captain Hook...
Should the dispute over the tapes let Noriega off the hook, the government will have to shoulder the blame. The public will have to bear the burden of unanswered questions that a fair trial may have helped to answer. It was not CNN but federal officials who ordered the recording of the calls. They, and not the First Amendment nor the American public, should bear the consequences of that decision...