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Authorities said more than 100 shots were fired, some from an automatic weapon, when Williams and Shawn Curry, 18, went outside to finish an argument that began inside the theater...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: New Movie Sparks Violence | 3/12/1991 | See Source »

...Morgan states that "'Yes means Yes and No means No' is the PC battle cry." I would like to ask him, if this is a political weapon, what a woman is supposed to do to protect herself. He has, in making this statement, made it okay for a woman to be ignored when she says "no," because, after all, doesn't "no" mean "just about anything," as he states...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When Sex is the Issue, 'No' Means Nothing But 'No' | 3/12/1991 | See Source »

Before they launched their ground attack, allied commanders were concerned that Iraqi artillery might inundate their troops with poison gas and nerve agents. In fact, not a single chemical weapon was fired, even though U.S. Marines found stocks of poison-gas shells in frontline positions. General Schwarzkopf said he did not know why the Iraqis failed to use them, but he speculated that their artillery -- the main delivery system for chemical shells -- was too badly damaged to launch a concerted attack. It is also possible that the chemicals themselves were no longer potent after being stored for months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait Is Liberated | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

With elaborate fortifications in the sand, Saddam tried to fight his last war over again. His frontline troops built triangular forts, dug bunkers, sowed minefields, piled up barriers and filled ditches with oil. Attackers were to be channeled into killing zones targeted by Iraqi artillery, which was the strongest weapon Iraq had used against Iran. This time the static defense did not hold. Preoccupied with hanging on to newly conquered Kuwait, Saddam did not extend his fortifications more than a few miles beyond the Saudi-Kuwaiti border. Coalition forces easily outflanked the "Saddam line." Even along the gulf coast, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait Is Liberated | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...while Saddam Hussein waited for the right moment to incinerate the Jewish state. "Every Palestinian knows that Saddam will emerge victorious," said Abdul Majeed Shahin as he discussed the war with a dozen others gathered in Jerusalem's Muslim quarter last week. "You see, he's got a secret weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Palestinians Back Another Loser | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

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