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French military officials do say the Iraqi army is running out of spare parts for tanks and armored personnel carriers and, in the words of one top officer, "will crumble soon after the first encounters." But Washington specialists do not believe it. Says Anthony Cordesman, a top congressional staff expert on the Middle East, who toured Iraqi military installations in 1989: "It will be a really long time -- I'm talking maybe a year -- before the embargo seriously affects Iraq's military capacity." Determining whether Saddam will pull out of Kuwait by then without fighting is problematic, and probably irrelevant...
...warrant punishment. He portrayed Michigan Democrat Donald Riegle as deceptive and suspiciously forgetful. He laid the heaviest blame on California Democrat Alan Cranston and Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini. Cranston, who will undergo cancer treatments this week, has announced that he will not seek re-election. Still, Bennett did not spare any of the five in his six-hour summation...
Mark Sneider's piece about a rally for student inclusion in the presidential search began, "If only Toqueville could have been there." If only Mark Sneider could have been there. While Sneider told me that he missed the rally, he did not spare us his opinion...
Industry has been more directly hit by the lack of spare parts, and many long-term building projects have had to be postponed, but cannibalizing and improvising can make a lot of difference. Another major effect of the embargo has been to cut Iraq's ability to pay for its imports with oil revenues. Here, too, Saddam can find ways around the restrictions. For one thing, he confiscated some $1 billion in gold in the Kuwaiti treasury. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly been offering him credit. In addition, Saddam runs a police state that can easily squelch discontent about...
...Japan." The strong yen has helped bring prices within reach, but the European success is mainly due to hard work and heavy investment. BMW has gone furthest in putting down roots. It has built from scratch its own network of 120 dealerships and committed serious money to a big spare-parts center. At its vehicle-preparation facility, the imports are tuned and polished to the perfection that the finicky Japanese buyer demands. Says Hans-Peter Sonnenborn, president of BMW Japan: "Japanese customers are extremely image-, service- and quality- oriented, but if you meet their requirements, they are very loyal." Surveys...