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...Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, after a day of meetings with top U.S. brass, declined to comment on when and where the allies would launch an expected ground attack...
...ages, from the sack of Rome to the Nazi Holocaust. This century's military technology has given new power to those primordial fears and illusions, wrote Friedrich in his book. Thus the most chilling uncertainty of the gulf war is whether Saddam, in an act of cynical desperation, might launch a few surviving Scuds armed with biological, chemical or nuclear warheads...
Saddam's vanished air force may reappear. His best planes -- MiG-29s and F-1 Mirages -- and his French-trained pilots have fled to Iran. But at least 350 others, mostly older MiGs, remain in Iraq in revetments and shelters. He could launch these, armed with conventional or chemical bombs, against the allied ground forces. He might even send some of them on kamikaze-style, one-way missions into Saudi Arabia and Israel. "Saddam appears prepared to lose those aircraft in strikes against us," warns a Pentagon general...
General Schwarzkopf promises to stick with the air blitzkrieg until it has achieved its objective. But the pressure to launch the ground attack will soon increase. Says Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies at King's College, University of London: "The allies won't leave it too long into February because they need to get ((the war)) over during March...
After only three weeks in office, Harvard Dining Services Director Michael Berry says he will soon launch a series of changes aimed at improving both the quality and variety of food offered to undergraduates...