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...sent to him, according to reports surfacing in Paris. Only the suppliers know the passwords, and unless they are keyed in, Iraqi guided missiles will not be able to reach their targets. Moreover, a Defense Ministry spokesman in Paris confirms that his country's warships carry transmitters that can jam French-built Iraqi radar systems and confuse the sensors on their Exocet missiles. But he concedes that battle-ready Western forces "definitely cannot jam all the weapons systems, because we have simply delivered too much weaponry to Iraq...
...Saudi Arabia, Barry Iverson in Amman, Tom Hartwell standing by in Cairo and Francoise DeMulder in Baghdad. Frey, a man of many skills, is doing double duty as a liaison with the military command and coping with the headaches of transmitting pictures. A high-tech air war could jam normal telecommunications and force reporters to switch from laptop computers to typewriters. Seven chemical-warfare protective outfits, purchased in London, are available for those who will be assigned to go into combat zones. "This is the first time I have ever asked anybody to go and cover a war," says...
...Freedom to Kuwait. I am for war. Peace for Kuwait. Peace for Israel. Kill Saddam Hussein," said immanuel Glazer, 46, a Soviet Jewish emigre driving a truck which was caught in a traffic jam caused by the protest. "I am strictly for Bush's policy," he said...
Aside from the Islamic world, where laws based on fundamentalist strictures often forbid access to any entertainment, there seem to be very few places where that is not the case. Even in secular Iraq, teenagers jam the half a dozen or so little shops in downtown Baghdad that sell pirated copies of American rock-'n'-roll tapes and where the walls are covered with posters of Madonna and Metallica...
...guard to check thoroughly the belongings and person of every student that exits the libraries. When classes let out in Lamont, more than 50 people leave the building in less than five minutes. Thoroughly checking a student would take two or three minutes at least--creating a huge traffic jam...