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...Connecticut state trooper responded to a call from The Crimson's cellular telephone...
Whatever the significance of the war, most Americans, giddy with relief and pride and a still-permeating sense of unreality, savored the moment. The first soldiers to come home from the gulf started pouring off transports. A trooper arrived at J.F.K. airport and said, "We're proud of what we done. We know we done the right thing." At Hunter Army Airfield in southern Georgia, 104 troops of the 24th Infantry Division, still dressed in desert camouflage, climbed off the plane in the middle of the night to a raucous celebration in which military discipline instantly fell apart. Friends...
...Before long other servicemen started tearing the photo out of magazines and pinning it up in tents, bunkers and just about every Marine military-police station in Saudi Arabia. Says Guibord: "If I can be a temporary diversion for our boys overseas, I'm flattered." Spoken like a real trooper...
...become a presence of bizarre intimacy. The nation's designated killers in the desert look very young on camera and confess that they are scared. Soldiers say hello to the nation on the morning < television shows, like kids away for spring break at some overheated, militaristic Lauderdale. One trooper proposed marriage to his girlfriend back home via satellite...
...show that it is still growing, but economists expect such borrowing to expand only 3.5% this year, in contrast to increases of about 8% in each of the past two years. As for the Fiorentinos, when their 1980 Volkswagen broke down, they replaced it with a modest 1986 Isuzu Trooper. Autoworker Bruce Boyd, 30, of Leonard, Mich., says his family has been trying to avoid using credit cards for the past several months. "I'm trying to tighten up just because of the world situation," says Boyd. "I am more conscious of it. I'd just as soon pay cash...