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...north of Kuwait City with the Second Marine Division when the Iraqis received their order to retreat. We heard the city was opening up, and we obviously had to get there immediately. So we decided to drive. But Kuwait was a mess of burning oil wells and minefield. We figured that the Iraqis wouldn't have mined under the hydroelectric pylons, and those would run all the way down to Kuwait City. But it was this hellish nighttime drive under the pylons, with burning oil wells and mines all around...
...glossing over them, which is what her predecessors tended to do. When she steps down in January, Meissner, who submitted her pro forma resignation last November, will leave what Miller calls "the federal government's toughest job," and it will be up to George W. Bush to fill this minefield of a post...
President-elect George W. Bush's first nomination for his nascent Cabinet was a confirmation on Saturday of the worst-kept secret in Washington: Gen. Colin L. Powell, (Ret.), for secretary of state. Would for him that every step of this fast tiptoe through the transition minefield could be this sure...
...legislature has ever used the 1948 law to select electors, and it is not clear if the American public would accept it. Another potential minefield: passing a bill to select electors would require the approval of Governor Jeb Bush, the candidate's brother...
...senate - Harris has apparently found her groove. And not a moment too soon: After Jeb Bush recused himself from the Florida recount procedures, state law thrust Harris into the limelight. Her first task? Trying to convince observers that she can, in fact, serve impartially in the most treacherous political minefield in memory...