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...rally, Boston University undergraduates Doug R. Wood and Glenn C. Carey said they thought support from the home front was important for troop morale in the Gulf. "The great thing about America is that people have the right to disagree with anything, but I think it's important for us to show that we support our soldiers," Wood said...
...forces in the Persian Gulf, most of whom cut their teeth on the Vietnam war, are determined to see that the press is kept out of the war this time. Of course, there are legitimate reasons to restrict some aspects of press coverage in a war zone: troop movements, targets and other sensitive information could endanger the lives of American soldiers if they were divulged indiscriminately. But no one has accused the press of exposing sensitive intelligence in Vietnam. The generals simply want to control public opinion about...
...first raids, U.S. and allied planes pounded targets throughout Kuwait and Iraq around the clock, not so much in waves as in a steady stream. Drawing targets from a 600-page daily computerized assignment book, they were concentrating at week's end on missile sites, command and control units, troop complexes and artillery sites. They also hit Baghdad again before dawn Saturday, knocking out the city's electricity and water and destroying the central telecommunications facility. By Sunday they had flown more than 4,000 sorties (one plane flying one mission). About 80% were said to have been effective; most...
...from Apache helicopters to B-52s and all sizes in between. Once the U.S. and allied forces have won complete control of the skies -- at week's end they were close but not quite there -- they are likely to hammer ever harder at such targets as supply lines and troop concentrations...
...billion rubles ($13 billion) to 80 billion rubles ($45 billion), though still short of its previous 60% share. In return, Yeltsin won concessions on budgetary accounting and greater control over the sprawling republic's enormous coal, natural gas and oil reserves. But Yeltsin withheld any endorsement of the troop deployments, arguing that "violence begets violence...