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...Allied planes attacked a 10-mile-long Iraqi armored column headed into Saudi Arabia. A major assault by Iraqi ground troops is expected soon...
...goal of the course is for people to find where they are anywhere in the world with only a sextant and a stopwatch, within a mile," Sadler says...
...precise Tomahawk cruise missile. But clumsiness can still be dangerous -- as Israel discovered when a dozen Scuds came galumphing into Tel Aviv and Haifa last week. Designed by the Soviets to deliver nuclear warheads over a short range, the Scud can miss its mark by as much as a mile. It is most effective against large cities, where the goal is not to hit a specific target but to terrorize the population. During the Iran-Iraq war, Baghdad and Tehran fired Scuds into each other's urban centers, killing hundreds of civilians...
...hide-and- seek and adopting very public preparations for striking back. "Our pilots are in their cockpits," declared air-force commander Avihu Bin-Nun on state- owned television as he stood in front of a fully armed F-15 equipped with external fuel tanks for the more than 500-mile trip to Baghdad...
Meanwhile the anti-Saddam coalition continued to cover the Saudi sands with soldiers and bristling weaponry. The Saudi government belatedly distributed gas masks and evacuation maps to the country's citizens. NATO dispatched 42 jet fighters from Italy, Germany and Belgium to Turkey, which shares a 200- mile border with Iraq. Officially, the contingent's purpose is to help defend Turkey in the event of an Iraqi assault. But the airplanes could also reinforce the threat of a second front opening up in Iraq's north...