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...photo-reconnaissance aircraft soaring high over the battlefield. But the information must be interpreted by human analysts hunched over fuzzy photos and computer screens. Identifying tanks and soldiers in pictures beamed back from a KH-11 Keyhole satellite is often a matter of counting dots on a computer monitor. "With 6-in. resolution you get a pixel for each shoulder and one for the head," says John Pike, space intelligence expert at the Federation of American Scientists. "That's hardly enough even to differentiate between military and civilian...
Newspapers with strong international coverage, like the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, have weighed in with stories from around the globe that TV has missed, like a report in the Monitor last week asserting that China had tried to circumvent the embargo against arms shipments to Iraq. Even papers that usually pay little attention to foreign coverage have sent reporters to the gulf region, and several have uncovered fresh news. The San Francisco Chronicle's Carl Nolte, for example, reported last week that some troops at the front are short of key pieces of equipment and basic...
...that school systems could be freed from judicially mandated plans if they have "complied in good faith" with the desegregation order and eliminated the "vestiges of past discrimination . . . to the extent practicable." The ruling effectively put the delicate issue back in the hands of the lower federal courts that monitor some 500 affected school districts around the country, many in the South and Southwest...
After all Iraqi forces have withdrawn, the U.N. peacekeeping force would oversee the restoration of the Kuwaiti government as it existed on August 1, 1990. Two months later, after the last coalition forces depart, it would monitor a referendum in Kuwait on the country's future form of government...
Among those who monitor atrocities for a living, a dispute is simmering. How many Kuwaitis have been summarily executed since Iraq's invasion on Aug. 2? How many have been tortured, how many arrested, how many raped? No one knows for sure, and few but Saddam's henchmen may ever know...