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...dwindling roster of overseas bureaus and reporters may dwindle further. With the rapid-deployment capability the networks demonstrated in the gulf war, says ABC News president Roone Arledge, "maybe the bureau structure is not as important as it used to be. You still have to get out and cover the story, but you don't have to be on location all the time...
Nearly all units continued moving at rapid rates: the Saudis and U.S. Marines in Kuwait toward the north; American Army units toward the Euphrates; British, other American, Egyptian and Syrian forces to the east. The French, having taken As Salman in 36 hours, stopped at midday on Schwarzkopf's orders to set up a defensive position guarding the units to their right against any Iraqi attack from the west...
...minds of Americans from the day George Bush dispatched troops to Saudi Arabia last August. The President took pains to vow that the mistakes of the only war the U.S. ever lost would not be repeated in the gulf. And they were not. From the massive and rapid military deployment to Bush's decision to seek formal congressional approval for the war, from the Pentagon's avoidance of macho rhetoric to the insistence by antiwar protesters that they supported U.S. troops, Americans of all sorts seemed determined to get it right this time. To the extent that any of Vietnam...
...Mart's relentless efforts have yielded remarkably rapid growth. Just 10 years ago, company sales of $2.4 billion were less than 12% of Sears'. But in the past three years, while Sears' North American retail sales (including those from 131 Canadian and Mexican stores) have grown only 14%, from $28 billion to $32 billion, Wal-Mart's have doubled, from $16 billion to $32.6 billion. Sears' overhead expenses still consume 29% of sales, and K mart's 23%, but Wal-Mart's burn up only 16% of sales. Wal-Mart workers are more productive than Sears': they generate an average...
...strategy is aimed, ultimately, less at Iraq's weapons and troops than at the enemy's mind. Ground units would make deep, rapid thrusts through enemy lines; troops would take advantage of the combined effect of artillery, air support, naval bombardment and armored assaults on targets carefully chosen to throw the enemy off balance by spreading fear, confusion and dismay. Says Lieut. General Charles Horner, commander of the combined air forces in the gulf war, who worked closely with the Army on the latest version of Field Manual 100-5: "The idea is to feed the enemy in bite-size...