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...solve these and other puzzles, many scientists have moved beyond their computer models and headed into the field to collect real data. Last week Martin Ralph, a climatologist with NOAA's Environmental Technology Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., spent 25 hours in a P-3 "hurricane hunter" aircraft, flying into the teeth of a Pacific storm to measure temperature, wind and humidity. His goal: to figure out precisely how such storms build, move and interact with the coastline. Along with data from more than a dozen other NOAA experiments, Ralph's information will be fed back into the computer models...
...veteran EA-6B pilot told TIME he was in no rush to blame his colleagues. The plane, he says, is complicated to fly and, unlike some military aircraft, has no automatic terrain-following features. On a low-level run, the plane is flying at nearly 500 m.p.h. "At that speed," he notes, "after a minute you're six miles off course." By week's end Italian authorities were insisting the plane was up to six miles outside the approved flight corridor. Marine officials agree the plane was too low, and some wonder if it was trying to fly under...
Albright will also try to persuade leaders in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to allow U.S. planes based there to take part in any anti-Saddam offensive. So far only Britain, which has sent an aircraft-carrier task force to the gulf, stands firmly with the U.S. on the use of force. Prime Minister Tony Blair, paying an official visit to Washington this week, will repeat that pledge...
...decided to do so yet. The U.S. has plenty of land- and carrier-based planes and missiles in the gulf to give Saddam's military and scientific establishment a pounding. Already 325 American warplanes are standing by, and later this week a third U.S. aircraft carrier, with 50 more attack jets, will arrive. Six of the 25 warships on station are outfitted with Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can drive their warheads into targets 1,000 miles away...
...Mideast hearts and minds: The U.S. and Saudi Arabia issued a joint warning to Iraq early Monday. "We are pleased with our talks and confident that the fine, close cooperation of our two countries will continue." Despite the good feelings, the results remain the same: No U.S. strike aircraft will fly out of Saudi bases. Cohen did say he expected the Saudis to at least allow support planes on their airstrips. En route to Kuwait, he told reporters it's harder to muster support when Saddam isn't "raping and pillaging and setting oil wells on fire...