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...reading of her gently anthemic song Woodstock. "We are stardust...And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden..." she sings. The lyrics seem to belong to another age, an era of idealism and Abbie Hoffman and moon landings and electric Kool-Aid acid tests and B-52s bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. But even as she sings, Mitchell is planted in the present. There's a rootedness about her; she's too grounded to be carried off by gusts of nostalgia. She keeps her own time...
...hostile planes. Below them the attack planes, F/A-18 Hornets, F-16 Fighting Falcons and British Tornados will swarm in to bomb the buildings and bunkers that have been linked to the production of biological and chemical weapons and missiles, and to units of Saddam's elite Republican Guard. B-52s, which can carry 20 times the bomb load of a carrier-based Hornet, will unload on Republican Guard bases...
Barely 9% of the bombs dropped during the Gulf War were smart bombs, and the Pentagon never released videos of B-52s carpet-bombing Iraqi troops or of smart bombs that missed. It was in September 1995 that U.S. smart weapons really triumphed. In a three-week campaign that was 70% smart bombs, the U.S. military drove the Bosnian Serbs to the Dayton, Ohio, negotiating table, ending the three-year Balkan war. The Air Force claims that it hit 97% of its targets and damaged or destroyed 80% of those it struck. It is that success the Pentagon will...
...Kurds of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (P.U.K.) with the help of Iraq and Iran respectively. At the same time, both factions are living under the protection of the U.S. Saddam's Republican Guard attacked Kurdish towns in northern Iraq, and high above the Persian Gulf, aging U.S. B-52s launched computer-guided cruise missiles at military installations far to the south. At what seemed to be the end of it all, Saddam improved his political position while the U.S. says it circumscribed his military capability. American critics grumbled that Clinton had not done enough; foreign friends complained that...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Hours after an Iraqi missile was fired at a U.S. fighter, the Pentagon upped the ante by sending F-117 stealth fighters and two B-52s to the Persian Gulf region in response to the latest provocation by Saddam Hussein. "The Pentagon is ready to send in aircraft with pilots, which can obviously be more dangerous than firing cruise missiles," TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says. "But that is the only way to get rid of the Iraqi surface-to-air defense missiles." The move came in response to an Iraqi missile launched...