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Barely 9% of the bombs dropped during the Gulf War were smart bombs, and the Pentagon never released videos of B-52s carpet-bombing Iraqi troops or of smart bombs that missed. It was in September 1995 that U.S. smart weapons really triumphed. In a three-week campaign that was 70% smart bombs, the U.S. military drove the Bosnian Serbs to the Dayton, Ohio, negotiating table, ending the three-year Balkan war. The Air Force claims that it hit 97% of its targets and damaged or destroyed 80% of those it struck. It is that success the Pentagon will...
Nonetheless, the Crimson is currently clinging to the third-place slot in the league, but with a three-week exam break looming in the near future, that position becomes extremely precarious...
...more interesting question is why, although 3,000 students voted, did 3,000 not? Given the three-week barrage of posters, table tents, e-mail messages and articles about grapes that preceded the referendum, how could so many abstain? Admittedly, Harvard students are a busy bunch. Even with all the publicity, even with voting as easy as a card swipe, it is not easy to shake us out of the academic and social shells we inhabit...
...Still, nobody is pushing for a confrontation yet. "Let's take this one step at a time," said National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, adding that the inspectors should be allowed to decide their own timetable. With the three-week standoff still fresh in everyone's memory and the Russian-brokered deal that ended it still tenuous, the U.S. isn't about to strong-arm its way into these palaces ? even if they do constitute a suspiciously large amount of Iraqi real estate...
...Meanwhile, both sides continue to declare victory in the aftermath of the three-week standoff. Saddam has declared that November 20 will henceforth be known as the Day of the People, a celebration of "victory over the enemies and the covetous ones." In Washington ? home of the covetous ones ? National Security Adviser Sandy Berger emphasized that Saddam was given "no understanding, no deal, no concessions" to resolve the crisis...