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Looking back, Seidman believes that probably the most important influence on his life was World War II. Fresh out of Dartmouth with his Phi Beta Kappa key in hand, he joined the Navy in 1943 and was assigned to a squadron of nine destroyers in the South Pacific; only two of the nine survived. "I thought I was really blessed to be alive when so many of my friends didn't come back," says Seidman. "The odds were pretty good that I wasn't coming back, so I thought I'd better enjoy myself and still do something for whoever...
...squadron of F-15E Eagles took off from air bases in Saudi Arabia at 4:50 p.m. EST., and correspondents in Iraq began reporting flashes of light and heavy anti-aircraft fire around Baghdad shortly before 6:30 p.m. CBS News reported that the U.S. launched unmanned Tomahawk cruise missiles against Iraqi targets. No ground fighting was reported...
...large is the military-aircraft presence in Saudi Arabia? One indication: the Pentagon was forced to turn down a Dutch offer to send a squadron of F-16s to the area because there is no space left on any air base for the planes...
...Paris, Mitterrand declared he would send an extra 4,000 troops to the gulf, upping the total number of French servicemen in the region to 7,800. He was not alone in answering Bush's call for additional support: Britain dispatched 6,000 more soldiers, Canada will send a squadron of 12 CF-18 jets, and Italy pledged eight Tornado fighters and a frigate...
Barring a typhoon in the Sea of Japan or a full-scale war in the Persian Gulf, a squadron of American warships will steam into Vladivostok's Golden Horn harbor this week for the first visit by the U.S. Navy in more than 50 years. Last week, while a pinafored band practiced The Stars and Stripes Forever in Revolution Square, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze was a few blocks away, addressing a conference of about 100 experts on Asia from 19 countries. "Not bad for what is still officially classified as a closed city," remarked Vladimir Kuznetsov, the provincial governor...