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...Pentagon ordered 16,099 body bags to be shipped to the Persian Gulf to bring home dead Americans. In the end, 15,773 of the bags were not necessary...
Americans got a reminder last week that some war zones are more lethal than others. After seven months in the Persian Gulf with a Patriot missile battery, Army Specialist Anthony Riggs, 22, won a two-week furlough. Back home less than 24 hours, Riggs was helping his wife load a car and rented van to move out of a crack-infested neighborhood in northeast Detroit to an apartment in the safer suburbs. Someone took a fancy to Riggs' 1989 Nissan Sentra, pumped five shots into the soldier and sped...
With 61% of its revenues coming from abroad, IBM blamed an international economic slowdown and the Persian Gulf war for poor earnings. Big Blue's bad news was especially troubling for other computer companies, such as Digital Equipment and NCR, whose stocks also fell as traders anticipated similar earnings declines...
...Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by Arizona voters. Miami is still suffering from a boycott by blacks incensed over the city's snubbing last summer of Nelson Mandela. Economic damage to date: $5.4 million. When the San Francisco board of supervisors declared the city a sanctuary for Persian Gulf war resisters, it drew bitter complaints from hundreds of angry convention managers and tourists. The controversial tactic seems to be having some effect. Faced with the possible loss of the Super Bowl in 1993, the Arizona legislature last week agreed to put the King holiday back on the election ballot...
...latest row culminates an ongoing feud between the two men. Among other things, Gandhi has objected to Chandrashekhar's efforts to open talks with insurgents in Punjab and Kashmir, his fiscal-austerity proposals and his decision to let U.S. warplanes bound for the Persian Gulf refuel in India...