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BOSTON--With the war in the Persian Gulf coming to a close, more than half a million returning U.S. troops will be greeted in the coming months with a hero's welcome from friends, family and the American public. Fifteen years ago, Vietnam veterans didn't receive such a warm reception...
CHICOPEE, Mass.--Officials at Westover Air Force Base are promising a hero's welcome, day or night, for every U.S. soldier returning from the Persian Gulf...
Westover, the nation's oldest Air Force Reserve base, and Dover have been the two main embarkation points for the giant C-5s that form the backbone of the U.S. airlift to and from the Persian Gulf...
Winter month travelers rarely fill have been more sparse than at any other time in recent history. But now that international tensions and hostilities in the Persian Gulf have died down, tourism officials say that Massachusetts residents will soon resume their searches for exotic cultures and warmer suns, resume their searches for exotic cultures and warmer suns...
...light of the situation in the Persian Gulf, it is clear that banning American or other flags is not something any of us feels comfortable doing," said Larry I. Palmer, Cornell's vice president for academic programs and campus affairs, in a New York Times interview. Palmer made the decision to suspend...