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...housing issue is just the tip of the iceberg. Now, while the Committee on House Life is still discussing the fate of Lehman Hall, reform on issues facing transfer students must be addressed...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: With Dudley House on its Way Out... | 3/12/1991 | See Source »

...carried out some aircraft, ship and behind-the-lines assignments. Most of the 28 coalition members performed noncombat duties or tried, as the 1,700 Moroccan troops did, to stay invisible: their dispatch to Saudi Arabia had become a focus of controversy back home. But Schwarzkopf took pains to tip his forage cap to the chief partners, all of whose missions he termed "very, very tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Allies: A Partnership to Remember | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...from there deeper into Iraq and struck out for the Euphrates River. Other units -- the British 1st Armored Division, seven U.S. Army divisions, and Egyptian, Saudi and Syrian units -- attacked at various times throughout the morning and early afternoon at points along the Saudi-Iraq border into the western tip of Kuwait. All moved fast and attained their most ambitious objectives. The 1st Marine Division, for example, by Sunday night had reached al-Jaber airport, half the 40-mile distance from the Saudi border to Kuwait City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battleground | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...Vietnam, says Tip Hale, a Chicago insurance salesman, "we didn't have a cause that united everyone. Bush did it right. He got the cooperation of other countries, brought the U.N. in and let the experts run the war . . . If there was a war you could be proud of, this was it." Republican pollster Robert Teeter predicts that the gulf victory will especially affect the attitudes of young Americans. "These are people who had not seen the country either lead or succeed in a big way on anything for a long time, whether it was Vietnam or economic competition," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home Front: Exorcising an Old Demon | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...tip seemed all the more strange coming from a man who, wearing khakis and a rumpled t-shirt, looked like the consummate budget traveler...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: Fa-a-a From Paradise | 3/5/1991 | See Source »

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