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There is bravado everywhere. At the air bases, troops scrawl messages on the bombs: ALL ABOARD; GET OUT SADDAM; SAY CHEESE; HAVE A NICE DAY, with a smiley face, are written on a Maverick AGM-65 air-to-ground missile. When General Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney visited a Stealth fighter squadron, they inscribed a 2,000-lb., laser-guided bomb. TO SADDAM, WITH AFFECTION, wrote Cheney. YOU DIDN'T MOVE IT, SO NOW YOU LOSE IT, Powell wrote...
...fiscal conservative who is a moderate on social issues, Martin, 51, built a reputation as a Republican maverick by voting to override Bush's vetoes of bills raising the federal minimum wage and guaranteeing family and medical leave for workers. Despite those votes, organized labor isn't happy. "Her voting record has not reflected a sensitivity to the needs of workers," complained Lane Kirkland, president of the 14 million-member AFL-CIO. Business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers welcomed her appointment...
...sand ridge near the Saudi-Kuwait border were firing at a company of U.S. Marines on the south side. The Marines were returning fire with TOW antitank missiles. Overhead, a U.S. Air Force A- 10 Thunderbolt swooped toward one of the Iraqi tanks and released a heat- seeking Maverick missile...
...instead of flying straight for the target, the missile was diverted by the hot exhaust of a Marine light armored vehicle that stood between the U.S. plane and the Iraqi tank. The Maverick smacked into the left rear side of the LAV, blowing up the vehicle and killing all seven Marines inside...
...armed services have developed elaborate -- albeit imperfect -- systems to avoid friendly fire. To prevent mishaps like the one near Khafji, Marine air-support planes carry laser-guided versions of the Maverick missile that must be guided to their targets by the pilot. Though not as smart as the infrared models favored by the U.S. Air Force, which can be fired and left to track the target on their own, the laser-guided Mavericks are less likely to mistake a friend...