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Defense Secretary Dick Cheney warned, at the end of the first week of battle, that "a military operation of this intensity and complexity cannot be scored every evening like a college track meet or a basketball tournament." Yet the Pentagon went on releasing, and the media went on using, comparative...
Remember all the chatter about a short war? Well, forget it. "We would prefer not to talk in terms of days or weeks but months," says White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. About the earliest anybody in the Bush Administration expects victory over Iraq is mid-March; British estimates run to...
THE COMPLETE DEAN BENEDETTI RECORDINGS OF CHARLIE PARKER (Mosaic). Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker almost single-handedly changed the course of jazz history with his lightning-fingered improvisations, rhythmic subtleties and harmonic genius -- not to mention the fast-living, drug-shooting life-style that led to his death at 34 and...
The early-morning assault was the climax to a crisis that had built over more than five months, after Iraq's President Saddam Hussein ordered a lightning invasion of neighboring Kuwait on Aug. 2.
Even by the convoluted standard of North African politics, Deby and Gaddafi are strange bedfellows. As adviser for security and defense under Habre, Deby helped mastermind a series of lightning attacks that drove Gaddafi out of northern Chad in 1983 and again in 1987. But after Habre accused him of...