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...raise. These forces would be vulnerable to F-16s, Saudi and British Tornados, and possibly F-111s now on station in Turkey, carrying 2,000-lb. laser-guided bombs and Maverick missiles. Armored, low-flying A-10 Thunderbolts would riddle the tanks with armor-piercing depleted-uranium slugs from rapid-fire guns...
After a decade of military buildup and the expensive creation of a rapid- deployment Central Command to protect oil supplies from the gulf, Americans naturally wonder: Why not a military response? The answer is that Iraq is too strong. The country has 1 million battle-hardened men under arms, plus 500 combat aircraft and 5,500 tanks. The U.S. has no ground troops in the region; its presence is limited to six medium-size ships of the Joint Task Force * Middle East, based on the island of Bahrain. The aircraft carrier Independence is steaming toward a station off the Straits...
...dark portents came in rapid succession. First the Bush Administration angered friend and foe alike last week by admitting that it needs $100 billion much sooner than expected to continue its cleanup of the shattered savings and loan industry. Then tempers flared at a Senate probe of charges that the government turned over more than 200 failed thrifts to investors in 1988 in what amounted to sweetheart deals. Finally, the beleaguered Resolution Trust Corporation, which is managing the bailout, disclosed plans to dispose of 130 more thrifts and to sell $50 billion of seized assets...
...crash program he has resisted because he felt the country was not ready for it. The accord was worked out in the Russian parliament, not in the President's inner circle. Radicals saw the development as a sign of their strength. Said Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov, who favors rapid change: "This is the first sign of a realignment into a center-left coalition...
Carey told a press conference that he felt "dazed and unworthy" when he learned of his selection. He was not the only Englishman to be dazed. The unusually rapid appointment, a mere four months after incumbent Robert Runcie announced plans to step down, apparently indicated that the commission reached a strong consensus in favor of Carey. But the choice caught everyone from bishops to bookies by surprise. Most speculation had centered on more prominent figures, among them Archbishop of York John Habgood, a favorite of the intellectual left who confessed to some disappointment at being bypassed, and Liverpool social activist...