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...Monday night meeting, the City Council unanimously passed a resolution showing its support for U.S. troops fighting in the Persian Gulf and stating that it "hopes for rapid Allied success in fulfilling the United Nations' mandate with a minimum of civilian, American and Allied casualties...
...Molloy, a consultant who trains salespeople to handle stress, says Saddam's fluttering eyelids may be a sign of mental breakdown. "When salesmen start blinking, they're usually in trouble," says Molloy. "The guy looks like he's falling apart." While medical researchers are split over the significance of rapid blinking, battlefield commanders confirm that the symptom is common among soldiers who have endured heavy bombardment...
...general are under attack by politicians from both parties (AIPAC is not a PAC, but it controls an impressive array of PACs). And while The Lobby has always found its most receptive audience in Congress, the legislative branch's ability and willingness to influence American foreign policy is in rapid decline. Congress may still be browbeaten into large aid packages, but an executive branch less susceptible to AIPAC pressure will decide how much--or how little--diplomatic or military support the U.S. will provide Israel...
...POWs' rapid capitulation only heightened concern about their treatment. These men, after all, have been schooled in the art of surviving in captivity. Since the early 1970s, each of the armed forces has been running men and women through a program called SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape). The simulated POW experience includes incarceration in fenced compounds, sleep deprivation, interrogation and brainwashing. While military officials will not discuss the specifics of the seven-to-10-day courses, legal suits filed by troops who sustained injuries during the training attest to its realistic conditions...
...subjugate Eastern Europe or even to slow the departure of Soviet troops. "The Soviet withdrawal will go ahead as planned," predicted Klaus Segbers of Germany's Institute for Science and Policy. But the convulsions will undermine Western confidence in the Soviets as a worthwhile economic and military partner. The rapid improvement in East-West relations depends on a reforming Soviet Union. If Moscow is turning the clock back, the West will find it hard to keep that partnership alive...