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...shooting war is avoided now, it may come later. When and if the economic stranglehold hits Iraq hard -- perhaps in three to four months -- it is entirely possible that rather than capitulate, Saddam will lash out militarily. No matter how supportive the public may be of Bush's intervention today, its willingness to tolerate flag-draped coffins returning to the U.S. for weeks on end is at best problematic. "This is not Panama or Grenada," says a man who has served both Reagan and Bush. "This is a deal with no known end," and the long haul is not America...
...Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) expressed fear that if the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait succeeds "Saudi Arabia might be next--and then Saddam Hussein would have a stranglehold on the West's oil supply...
...that, the only place to go is still The Coop at 1400 Mass Ave. With a monopolistic stranglehold on textbook-seekers, The Coop is Harvard's inefficient overly-corporate attempt to run a department store. Don't be deceived by the Coop's three stories of book offerings, and don't be lured in by promises of an ever-diminishing membership rebate. The Coop's selection is utterly unremarkable. Shopping there for anything but textbooks--when there are so many fine bookstores in the Square--is downright criminal...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard will defend its eight-year stranglehold on the Ivy League title as it hosts Ivy Co-champion Yale Friday at 2 p.m. and Brown Saturday at noon. President Derek C. Bok is expected to attend both matches...
Italians call the Sicilian Mafia "the Octopus," and justly so. As investigative reporter Claire Sterling shows, its tentacles have branched from Palermo over the past 30 years to get a global stranglehold on the $100 billion heroin market -- and a major stake in the new cocaine trade. With billions in profits to launder annually, the Sicilian Mafia also ranks as the world's most profitable multinational, showing a return of 1,600% on its investment...