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...Iraqi jets earned at least a symbolic success for Saudi Arabia's military image. Britain's Royal Air Force squadrons scored something more, taking on extremely hazardous missions that in just over one week of war cost them eight crewmen and six of their 36 gulf-deployed Tornado fighter-bombers. French flyers, having arrived to a frosty welcome, soon won respect, and Kuwaiti pilots pulled their weight as well, putting invaluable knowledge of their country to use in bombing military targets there...
...just slow down; they crash. The Pentagon has not shown any TV pictures of "smart" bombs flying a perfect path into the side of a camel. But as the Scud hits have demonstrated, mistakes do happen. One aircraft expert says the desert sand has wreaked havoc with the British Tornado jets, lodging in the turbine engine blades and melting into glass. If blades on U.S. jets are faring better, it may be because enginemakers imported tons of Saudi sand for tests several years ago and modified their equipment accordingly...
...crew members of the British Tornado GR-1 fighter-bomber are missing, British sources in Riyadh said...
...necessary to bark a few brusque commands in order to send it scurrying. India, on the other hand, has a more coquettish relationship with it: she takes painting classes, flirts momentarily with divorce, psychoanalysis and the ideas of Thorstein Veblen. But whether the Bridges are confronting a tornado that Walter refuses to let interrupt dinner, their children's romantic and sexual hubbubs, a friend's suicide or simply the long silences of their own relationship, there is never any question about who is in charge around here...
Reno, born Karen Renaud, is one of the women who pulls, pummels and stretches comedy into the field of performance art. The tornado with dark roots asks, "Remember when safe sex meant doing it when your parents were out of town...