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...attack ordered by the President consisted of 23 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from a destroyer, the Peterson, in the Red Sea, and a cruiser, the Chancellorsville, sailing in the Persian Gulf. The missiles were fired in the late afternoon Washington time, or about midnight in Baghdad. Carrying 1,000 lbs. of explosives apiece, they reached their target, the sprawling Iraqi Intelligence Service headquarters, in about an hour and a half. Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell explained that the intelligence agency had undoubtedly conducted the assassination attempt, so it merited the punishment. Further...
...afterlife. Nor do they permit autopsies. Tribal members tend to view an untimely death with shame, since it might be interpreted as punishment for bad living. Indeed, some Indian elders were linking the illness to the adoption of fast food, MTV and video games. In radio broadcasts, Navajo president Peterson Zah beseeched his intensely private people to cooperate with health-care workers...
...Peterson does acknowledge that Congress may in fact reject the plan. "Clinton is the first person to run on health care reform. But that doesn't mean it won't fail," he says...
...Peterson says some of Clinton's actions in other areas during the first hundred days can be attributed to a "tremendous generational change...
...issues like women in combat, gays in the military and abortion are at the forefront of this generational gap that George Bush was not a part of," Peterson says...