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...Houston. The idea was for a U.N. team in Baghdad to show up at a military ministry and demand entry; if Saddam balked, the allies would fire cruise missiles at selected targets. But the U.N. team, perhaps embarrassed by the publicity or unwilling to look like a U.S. pawn, quietly wrapped up business, pronounced its mission a success and left...
SOME MERCHANTS IN BURNED-OUT LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORhoods may not be able to rebuild, even if they have the resources. They need permits. Many Angelenos in the ravaged areas are expected to oppose permits for so-called nuisance businesses: liquor stores, pawn shops, auto-repair shops and cheap motels. Says one gang member: "We were doing some renovation to the neighborhood. There are too many liquor stores in our community...
Clinton went after Tsongas by airing a new spot in Colorado, Georgia and Maryland that paints the ex-Senator as a Wall Street pawn. Of the dozen Clinton ads shown this year, the whack at Tsongas is the only one in which Clinton is barely seen and is heard not at all; an anonymous announcer does the kneecapping. Most of the other Clinton commercials mirror his candidacy -- smooth, warm, persuasive, calculated with an insider's finesse to play on the public's anger at insiders...
...down," says Bobby, "but you don't have to stay there." The next day Tamey found a job running a cash register at Hardee's. Soon they had enough money to move into some cheap motels on a seedy avenue of used-car dealerships, pawn-shops and nightclubs. Within weeks they sent for the kids, who showed up the day before Nicole's 10th birthday. As she stepped out of the car at 5 a.m., Nicole took one look at the decrepit motel and asked, "Where are we going to live, Mom?" Tamey's response: "Here." Her daughter shrugged...
When it dawned on MacArthur that he too was being abandoned, he spoke grandly of his destiny. "They will never take me alive," he said as he slipped a loaded pistol into his pocket. But MacArthur was just a pawn on an enormous political chessboard. Australia, threatened by the Japanese advances, demanded the return of three divisions sent to help Britain fight Germany. But the Australians said they would not insist if the U.S. promised troops and appointed an American supreme commander for the whole South Pacific. Churchill, unwilling to withdraw the Australians then battling Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps...