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...into the mountains along the Turkish and Iranian borders, where many starved or froze to death. It was only because the Western media publicized those horrors that the Administration belatedly came to the Kurds' rescue. Along with other members of the anti-Saddam coalition, the U.S. has established an umbrella of armed force to safeguard the Iraqi Kurds above the 36th parallel. The area is now a de facto Kurdish state. It has an army and a democratically elected parliament, and it is developing its own laws and taxes. Out of deference to Washington and Ankara, Kurdistan still flies...
...President Bush went to war over Kuwait. He has talked about the possibility of U.S. intervention in Yugoslavia under a U.N. umbrella. Now that the cold war is over, when and where is the use of American force overseas justified...
...last month when it bombed a navy van in Madrid, wounding 13. Although Spain's 17 regions are gaining more autonomy, the national-identity issue remains explosive. Catalans and Basques, who control their own schools, police forces and television stations, envision an even more independent future under a Euro-umbrella. The Basque country, says Guernica Mayor Eduardo Vallejo, "should be the 13th star on the E.C. flag...
...bring extensive rain gear. Umbrella raincoat, duck boots the whole works . It rains here. A lot. Sometimes an umbrella alone does very little to protect you from Boston's torrential downpours which are usually accompanied buy gusty winds. And the old brick side walks of Cambridge have a way of collecting rain water and ruining shoes. If you don't like getting wet, consider transfering...
Burton knows that moviegoers, just like the Penguin, need their oversize playthings. So he and production designer Bo Welch provided toys for the kids. The new-model Batmobile can get ultraslim (fast!) and slip through the narrowest crevice. The Penguin's parasol becomes an Umbrella-Copter, spiriting him out of the trouble he loves to make. At the end he sends his commando squadron of penguins to destroy the city: tuxedoed birds wearing embossed shields, tiny helmets and missiles with candy-cane stripes ( it is Christmas) on their backs. Some of the penguins were real, some were robot puppets, some...