Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the "bush vets," as they've come to be known, prefer it that way, having chosen to shun virtually all human contact. Many returned home only fleetingly before retreating into tropical solitude. "My family thinks I'm an MIA in the U.S.A.," says Glenn Hayne, 44, who made it back to Oakland in February 1968, after a tour full of fire fights and body bags with the Tenth Cavalry, only to drift to Mexico and then Hawaii. He supported himself by growing the powerful local variety of marijuana known as pakalolo but, after a recent crackdown by drug...
...ground attack to free their country. U.S. officials fear that the returning Kuwaitis might slaughter every Palestinian in sight. Many of the exiles believe that Palestinians living in the emirate collaborated with the Iraqi army and revealed information about important Kuwaitis to the invading forces. Pentagon officials prefer to place Saudi troops, instead, in the vanguard of any assault. Once the area is stabilized, the exiles will be allowed a triumphant march into Kuwait City...
...Pentagon planners. Publicly, U.S. officials have refused to rule out going nuclear. "We'd prefer to keep Saddam guessing," says an Administration source. But Washington decided early in the confrontation with Iraq not to supply nuclear weapons to the ground troops in Saudi Arabia. Nearly 400 ! nuclear warheads are thought to be aboard American ships in the gulf region. Using them, however, would yield no military advantage that would come anywhere near offsetting the horrendous political fallout...
Remember all the chatter about a short war? Well, forget it. "We would prefer not to talk in terms of days or weeks but months," says White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. About the earliest anybody in the Bush Administration expects victory over Iraq is mid-March; British estimates run to mid-April or so. Which of course would still be short by comparison with World War II, Korea or Vietnam, but hardly the lightning victory that the success of the first air strikes on Baghdad had led some commentators to anticipate...
...Unfortunately, I cannot simply run for re-election and let the Council make the decision," Rauch said in a letter he sent with the poll. "If I run, some well-qualified candidates are likely to stay out of the race. Even if a majority of Council members would prefer a chair who is not a second semester senior, I might still win for lack of qualified opponents...