Word: seale
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...Saddam moves quickly to seal all escape outlets, Kuwaitis and the remaining foreigners, who include some 2,500 Americans, will be in for tougher times. Baghdad Radio has warned Kuwaiti citizens that they will face "the severest of punishments" if they provide Westerners with shelter. Meanwhile, Saddam is filling Kuwait with thousands of Iraqis, who arrive in trucks with all their belongings and orders to take up residence in abandoned apartments. "By the time Saddam has finished," says a refugee in Saudi Arabia, "the population will be completely different." And Kuwait may well be a place no Kuwaiti would want...
Move over, Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. The race is on to produce a stamp that will alert consumers to products that meet the highest standards of environmental safety. The Green Seal, introduced last week, should start appearing early next year on such products as toilet paper, light bulbs, laundry cleaners and facial tissues that meet the criteria established by a panel of scientists. "Our objective is to help American consumers vote with their pocketbooks on environmental issues," says former Earth Day chairman Denis Hayes, who is chief executive of the nonprofit, Washington-based Green Seal project...
Meanwhile, Green Cross, a nonprofit subsidiary of Scientific Certification Systems of Oakland is working with four national supermarket chains and manufacturers to certify products that meet high standards for recyclability. The cross will appear for the first time in July. Manufacturers seeking the Green Seal or the Green Cross will have to pay fees to cover the cost of analyzing their products, and Green Seal will levy an annual licensing fee. Can the two ecologos happily coexist in a green world? There may not be room for both, say experts. Ultimately the fittest will survive...
...rebel groups like the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front cross the border from India, sometimes under covering fire from Pakistani troops, buy weapons in Pakistan's open arms markets, seek military training with the mujahedin in Afghanistan and return to Kashmir to fight on. India, doing its best to seal off the uprising, has increased its paramilitary forces in the region from...
...Army now has seven light divisions, so called because they are highly mobile forces boasting most of the same fighting capabilities as the Marines. On top of that, the Pentagon has developed the 38,000-troop Special Operations Forces which include the Navy's sea, air and land SEAL forces; the Air Force's First Special Operations Wing; and the Army's highly trained Ranger force, for use against terrorists and in guerrilla warfare...