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...accounting ordinarily might come in dead last. But nothing about the Persian Gulf crisis is ordinary, and some angry national and international arguments are breaking out about what, at least in part, are questions of accounting: How much more will the Pentagon really have to spend on Operation Desert Shield? Are certain allies, notably Saudi Arabia, getting rich from the crisis or actually losing money? Are others, pre-eminently Germany and Japan, falling behind even on their relatively piddling pledges...
...increased cost, of course, largely represents President Bush's decision to roughly double the size of the U.S. force in the gulf area. Nonetheless, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has raised its estimate of the extra costs of Operation Desert Shield from an initial $7 billion to only $12 billion. Some legislators suspect the Pentagon of playing a numbers game in arriving at its own, far higher figure. Because Congress decided to finance the gulf operation outside the regular budget, they believe, the Defense Department is exaggerating Desert Shield's price tag by including many extraneous costs...
...young Americans wait for their presents in the desert. They come addressed to Operation Desert Shield, APO New York, 09848-0006. They are parcels of home shipped into a zone that is nearly as alien and inhospitable as space -- temperatures unnatural, planet sand-colored to the horizon, days blinding, nights full of stars. Home, built around the cave and fire pit, belongs to a more Teutonic, cold-weather scheme of things...
...Minneapolis suburb of Apple Valley, a middle school teacher startled his students with a warning about the Desert Shield pen pals to whom they had been writing since September. "You need to prepare yourselves," Todd Beach told the class, "because there is a possibility that the people you are writing to might...
...core of the decision was that North's constitutional shield against forced self-incrimination may have been violated. North had testified at the congressional hearings under a grant of partial immunity, meaning Walsh could not use information from North's public testimony in the criminal case unless he had obtained the evidence independently. By a 2-to-1 vote, the appeals panel ruled that the trial judge's scrutiny of this issue had been insufficient. In a dissent, Judge Patricia Wald said the decision would "make the prosecution's burden an impossible one." Poindexter, North's boss at the White...