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Washington was increasingly confident that it could contain any military thrust from Iraq. As Operation Desert Shield, which features the largest airlift in history, continued, the day when the U.S. and allied forces would have sufficient strength to conduct offensive operations against Iraq was rapidly approaching, especially since Defense Secretary Dick Cheney has persuaded other gulf countries like Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to provide logistical facilities. In less than two weeks, the U.S. has sent nearly 100,000 troops and a billion pounds of supplies, the equivalent, Pentagon officials boasted, of moving a community the size...
...effective against a U.S. ground and air assault. In this situation, officials indicated, the U.S. might choose to sweep around Kuwait, directly into Iraq, with ground forces receiving support from both the Air Force and the Navy in the gulf and a coordinated Marine amphibious assault. Before any such thrust, U.S. aircraft would sever Iraq's long and crucial supply lines from Baghdad to Kuwait and vicinity. U.S. aircraft would also try to take out Iraq's nuclear- and chemical-warfare facilities before allied troops had to don their gas masks and protective clothing...
...courting foreign leaders paid off handsomely. "Call Fahd, call Ozal, say this to this guy, that to another," says a Bush aide who watched his boss calculate. "No memos were required. It was all in his head. He operated exactly opposite of how Reagan worked. He knew the military thrust should follow the diplomatic. He knew that to be effective, the lineup against Saddam had to be perceived as more than just the rich West against a poor ( Arab." Within days, worldwide economic sanctions were in place: a boycott of Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil and a freezing of those nations...
...1980s were a time of feast and fear for the world's international banking system: an era of globalization and vigorous overseas expansion but also of sharp competitive thrust. Asian banks and increasing numbers of European ones hung OPEN FOR BUSINESS signs abroad, joining the U.S. multinationals that had dominated global finance for decades. Suddenly the Japanese, drawing on their huge national savings pool and enormous trading surpluses, appeared to be the new Masters of the Banking Universe, carving out richer slices of international market share with startling rapidity. The global banking business became an international free...
...appear in the medical journals during the past decade is by Dr. Franz Ingelfinger, the late and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Ingelfinger noted that almost all illnesses are self-limiting. That is, the human body is capable of handling them without outside intervention. The thrust of the article was that we need not feel we are helpless if disease tries to tear away at our bodies, and that we can have greater confidence in the reality of a healing system that is beautifully designed to meet most of its problems. And even when outside help...