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...there is only one sure way to find out how badly damaged an enemy's forces are, and that is to inspect them after the war is over. "Every country that attempted bomb-damage assessment in modern history has been proved wrong once analysts had a chance to visit the battlefield," says Anthony Cordesman, a Washington-based expert on Iraq's military. But Saddam Hussein probably has a pretty good idea what condition his troops are in. His last-minute attempts to strike a deal last week may be the best bomb-damage assessment of them...
...store owners were even willing to set up a committee that would routinely inspect stores for violations. Their key point was that they wanted to preserve their autonomy from local authority. The state attorney, however, was not willing to compromise his position...
According to the resolution, the city will inspect local garages and lots regularly. Garage owners convicted of violating the regulations must surrender their spaces to the state for redistribution...
...Bush's peripatetic presidency is beginning to exhaust those who are supposed to cover his every move. The White House travel office notes a sharp decline in the number of reporters who automatically accompany Bush on his constant domestic tripping -- to speak at Republican fund raisers, plant trees and inspect natural disasters. For those who still follow the President wherever he may go, Los Angeles Times correspondent David Lauter has invented "The Poppy," an award bearing Bush's childhood nickname. It will eventually be bestowed upon the reporter who maintains the lowest ratio of paragraphs published to miles traveled with...
...mayoral campaign pitting three-term incumbent Edward I. Koch against a black challenger, Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, came the murder of Yusuf Hawkins. He was a 16-year- old black who with a group of friends ventured into the tightly knit, mostly Italian Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn to inspect a used car. They were set upon by a gang of whites armed with baseball bats and a gun. When the melee was over, Hawkins lay dead with two bullet wounds in his chest...