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...poll conducted for TIME/CNN last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman showed Bush with an overall approval rating of 71% and support for his handling of the gulf crisis even higher at 75%. His summit in Helsinki with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev bolstered his claim that the confrontation in the Persian Gulf is not the U.S. vs. Iraq but "Iraq against the world...
...past, the retired CBS anchorman was mostly mum on the subject. Now Cronkite, who has been relegated to an infinitesimal on-air role since he stepped down in 1981, let slip some frank criticism at a Manhattan gathering last week. When asked about his network's coverage of the Persian Gulf crisis, during which Rather landed an exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein, Cronkite acidly observed that Saddam "saved Rather's skin." While conceding that the younger man is a good reporter, Cronkite believes Rather has "blown it" as an anchor. "He's stiff and uncomfortable. Look at the ratings...
...plan being called in Pentagon circles "the Half War" goes into effect. Some 700 U.S. aircraft flying from Saudi Arabia and carriers in the Persian Gulf turn a 75-mile-wide area of Iraq north of the Kuwait border into what some Air Force officers call a "parking lot" -- an area that has been completely leveled. F-117A fighter-bombers take out Iraqi antiaircraft missiles. Tomahawk cruise missiles from the battleship Wisconsin hit communications centers, truck junctions, munitions depots. B-52 bombers blast targets with highly accurate missiles. Most important, a variety of weapons * throw a suffocating "electronic blanket" over...
...Harvard Republican Club this week extended its hands from the steps of Widener to the battlefields of the Middle East, starting a campaign to send letters to American soldiers in the Persian Gulf...
...fundamental problem the need to protect the vast oil reserves in the Persian Gulf. Our country imports a relatively small percentage of its oil from Iraq and Kuwait, and from the whole Persian Gulf for that matter. Should Saddam cut off access to Gulf oil, it would certainly spell trouble for our economy in the short term, but we could use the opportunity to develop alternative energy sources, a project long overdue...