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Is it about oil, or is it about order? Those who say the gulf crisis is about oil note that U.S. military forces would not be massing to protect one distant feudal monarchy and restore another if the barren sands of Arabia had nothing underneath. Those who say it's...
Such a concentration of troops would create serious logistical problems for Iraq, which has little experience with long-range offensive operations. In its eight-year war with Iran, the attacking Iraqi army penetrated no more than 50 miles, and was eventually beaten back by Iranian troops, who fought without much...
-- Second, some decent people are working on the problem. One of them is William Seidman, the chief U.S. banking regulator, who has generally been frank and realistic in trying to handle the mess -- too frank and realistic for President Bush, who aims to replace him with William Taylor, a low...
Despite all the German troop movements, despite sharp words between the two regimes, the supposedly crafty and suspicious Stalin foresaw nothing. The very night before the attack, Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov called in the German ambassador, Count Friedrich von der Schulenberg, and said the Soviets were "unable to understand the...
Its period authenticities and relentlessly violent plot practically guarantee Billy Bathgate a sale to the movies. Good luck to all concerned, for the novel's greatest strength resides in its least cinematic feature. Billy's language -- breathy, breakneck, massing phrases into great cumulus sentences that rumble with coming rough weather...