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...United States planned and instigated the Persian Gulf Crisis, Christic Institute President Daniel Sheehan said in a panel Wednesday at the Kennedy School of Government...
...later. Now, in a less dramatic but still significant way, computer technology is getting into the act, and I'm proud to say that TIME is heavily involved. This week we, together with our corporate cousins at Warner New Media in Los Angeles, are releasing a history of the Persian Gulf war that combines text, images and audio accounts of the conflict -- on a tiny 5-in. disc...
...technology is called CD-ROM, for compact-disc read-only memory, and the disc can be "played," with the help of an attachment costing $400 to $900, on most personal computers. The TIME newsdisc, titled Desert Storm -- The War in the Persian Gulf, will include TIME stories and charts, scores of unpublished photographs, sound recorded from radio and TV, and files from our correspondents in the field. Users can call up different pieces of information at the click of a mouse. Says executive editor Dick Duncan: "It gives the reader-viewer a first raw cut of history...
PRESIDENT BUSH, riding on an incredible 90 percent approval rating, declared at the end of the war in the Persian Gulf that the ghost of Vietnam had been laid to rest, and in the wake of the Gulf triumph he seemed to be right...
...Persian Gulf, we all knew who stood with whom. Who was with the United States? All of the world's democracies, including Israel, which absorbed Scud after Scud without retaliating in order to further America's war effort...