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...down an "electronic blanket" suffocating all communications between enemy headquarters and troops in the field, infrared devices supposed to turn night into day for soldiers drawing a bead on hostile troops and armor. The Iraqi forces in Kuwait would rely on an extensive network of minefields, earth berms, razor wire and trenches designed to make an enemy frontal assault as fruitlessly bloody as the British Somme offensive...
...stringent standards than ever before. Republican Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton of Indiana, two of the senior members on the investigating committee, argue that granting immunity was correct regardless of the ultimate impact on the criminal cases. "You had a President on the razor's edge," says Hamilton. "People were talking about impeachment." By that reasoning, it was in the national interest to get out the facts quickly...
...ponytail of the past, held back with an elastic band, has been joined by plaits, queues and thin, razor-cut hanks of eccentric design. Gary Margolis, 45, director of a counseling center at Vermont's Middlebury College, believes that hair has once again become a font of Zen expressionism: "How you wear your hair speaks of the inner self." The message may be simpler. For many men, it may just be "I don't have to put up with haircuts anymore." The tyke who protested when he was first lifted into a barber's chair may be the ponytailed...
...resolution authorizing the use of force, Bush offers to "go the extra mile for peace" by starting a dialogue with Baghdad. Oddly, Washington's nightmare is that Saddam will divide the alliance by giving up part of Kuwait. -- An offensive to liberate Kuwait would pit lasers against razor wire in a short, intense and incredibly bloody battle...
Some analysts said they were not surprised by the announcement, noting the ages of the retirees. But Diana Temple, an analyst at Salomon Brothers, was surprised by the departure of Symons, saying he was a main force behind Gillette's new Sensor razor, introduced earlier this year...