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Some Pentagon officials suggested that the new fires might have been started by the Iraqis as a last-ditch defensive strategy, to try to impede visibility for a final allied offensive. But U.S. military planners said they could circumvent any such tactics. The Iraqi actions seemed to be aimed more at crippling Kuwait's oil-producing capacity. U.S. officials reported that other oil-related facilities and shipping terminals had been damaged as well, with the intention, in President Bush's words, of "destroying the entire oil- production system of Kuwait...
...Jordan's King Hussein mounts a last-ditch effort for peace, he is sporting a silvery new beard. Some of the King's subjects believe he is trying to appear more pious as the gulf conflict heats up. Just after Hussein grew the beard, he appointed members of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood to his Cabinet, thereby including that group in the government for the first time. Others see the beard's purpose differently, concluding that months of fruitless diplomacy have caused the King's stress-induced skin rash to act up again...
...last-ditch compromise aimed at creating unanimity on the City Council failed last night, when the body's conservative bloc broke ranks with liberals and the business community to vote against a temporary freeze on new commercial parking spaces in the city...
...last-ditch effort to save Freedom, political and business leaders tried to raise the $6 million needed to keep the bank solvent. But federal regulators closed Freedom after the group failed to meet a Nov. 13 deadline. Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel, in whose district the bank was situated, charged that the government moved too hastily. "It was mean spirited," he says. "We needed more time...
Thus debate on the new treaty will begin with only 10 of the 15 republics committed to try working out something they could sign. That is hardly an auspicious beginning for what may turn out to be a last-ditch effort to keep the Soviet Union from disintegrating into little more than a name -- and maybe not even that...