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Well, some of us can. For the three broadcast networks, the repercussions of the gulf war will not be shaken off so easily. Their coverage from the Persian Gulf won big audiences and, for the most part, critical acclaim. But it cost a bundle: nearly $50 million at NBC alone, including the loss of revenues from squeamish advertisers. Losses were reportedly in the same range at CBS, though "significantly less" at ABC, according to network executives. At the same time, the war gave a major boost to CNN, which won hordes of potential new devotees with its round-the-clock...
...With the Persian Gulf crisis as a fresh reminder that oil supplies are uncertain, interest in alternative fuels for vehicles is suddenly stronger than it has been in years. From automakers to energy companies, the race to develop a clean and dependable substitute for gasoline is in full gear. Chrysler recently unveiled a battery-powered prototype of its popular minivan. GM is experimenting with automobiles that run on methanol, a form of alcohol that comes from such sources as coal and wood. United Parcel Service recently tested delivery trucks that burn propane rather than gasoline. Mercedes-Benz has developed...
American intervention in a Soviet civil war? The thought sounds even crazier than -- oh, say, a suggestion last Aug. 1 that the U.S. might send half a million soldiers, sailors and aviators to the Persian Gulf to fight a war against Iraq. But around the Pentagon and the CIA, the question is by no means dismissed out of hand: circumstances can be foreseen in which the dilemma would at least need to be addressed...
What does new world order mean -- in George Bush's mind? In the future of the world? Is it a rhetorical flourish in the same harmless league as his "thousand points of light"? Or does the phrase betoken some deeper American ambition -- a pattern of the Persian Gulf intervention to be extended elsewhere in the world as occasions arise...
...Americans would ever make it to the moon if they insisted on calculating distances in feet and inches. Americans were considered "les grands enfants," powerful but childish. Not long ago, a University of Tours sociologist named Jean-Pierre Sergent argued that Americans would not go to war in the Persian Gulf because they cannot face reality, only simulated versions of it. Now, after the battle, a writer named Jean d'Ormesson allows that Bush, an apparent "simpleton . . . has revealed himself, to almost universal surprise, to be a steadfast head of state . . . He has restored America to the first rank...