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With the continuing American troop buildup in Saudi Arabia and the daily increases in tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank, it may be only a matter of time before a minor incident provokes yet another Mid-East...
...might have been otherwise had President Bush not waited until after the election to announce that he was nearly doubling U.S. troop strength in the Persian Gulf. As it was, only a few sitting members of Congress were defeated, hardly enough to make more than a token difference in the composition of the Senate (where the Democrats picked up one seat) and the House (where they picked up eight). In fact, the most significant result involved a politician who wasn't even on the ballot. For if the election of 1990 changed nothing else, it undermined the perception that George...
When your backyard becomes a war zone, you might grow angry, throw tantrums or call your Congressperson. Or you might even, like the Drug Policy Foundation and the Civil Liberties Monitoring Project, file multi-million dollar lawsuits against William Bennett and his czarist policies. Whatever the gains of troop employment (insignificant by many accounts), the government cannot afford to create this unnecessary hostility towards its assault on drugs...
...happened, more people than the usual unending queues of demoralized shoppers took to the streets last week -- from Ukrainian-independen ce campaigners in Kiev to a procession behind a Russian Orthodox priest blessing Moscow's new commodities exchange, to U.S. film star and fitness diva Jane Fonda leading a troop of Soviet women on an athletic loop around the Kremlin. Yet as loudspeakers blared "Hoorah, hoorah!" for Fonda outside the old czarist citadel, inside no outright cheers greeted Gorbachev's shape-up course. Legislators adopted the program by a vote of 333 to 12 (with 34 abstentions) but remained unsure...
That requires vigilance against a variety of threats, including terrorism and chemical and biological warfare. To reduce the danger of an attack on U.S. forces, Schwarzkopf has relocated thousands of troops who had been temporarily housed in hotels, spreading them out horizontally rather than stacking them vertically. Troop encampments in vulnerable areas are protected by sentries carrying loaded automatic weapons and by concrete barriers positioned in front of barred gates. "We're not going to have another Beirut barracks bombing if I can help it," says Schwarzkopf. He is less worried about chemical and biological attacks, since he contends that...