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...billion the Bush Administration requested for fiscal 1993. Of course, it would take several years to bring the U.S. military down to these proposed levels. Moreover, TIME's projected costs would have to increase near the end of this decade, when new generations of technology -- especially tactical aircraft -- will have to replace aging equipment. If new threats were to emerge, or old threats reappear, the U.S. could tailor its military to the changed situation...
...secret scheme to attack Saddam if the U.N. team's mission had ended in failure. A few days later, the allies announced plans to carve out a security zone in southern Iraq, home of a persistent Shi'ite insurgency, that would be off limits to Saddam's combat aircraft. "We are not doing this for no good reason," British Prime Minister John Major explained. "It's happening because there is clear evidence now of the systematic murder, genocide, of the Shi'ites...
They will not -- probably cannot -- do it for Slavic Muslims in Bosnia. But the U.S. and its European allies are prepared to give air protection to Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq. The U.S., France and Britain, having mobilized a force of 200 aircraft and 19 navy ships, have agreed to declare a "no-fly zone" across the southern third of the country. The force is to fly reconnaissance missions over a marshy region where Western officials say Saddam Hussein pursues a policy of genocide against opponents of his regime. The goal will be to close the sky to Iraqi flights...
...allied action was prompted by evidence that 70 Iraqi combat aircraft were being used to attack Shi'ite villages and rebel camps in the swamps and islands in the Basra region, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into the gulf. That violates a U.N. resolution, passed after the Gulf War, prohibiting Saddam's "repression" of his own people. A similar protection zone has been in effect in northern Kurdish regions since April...
...have 30 seconds' warning would sound like a helluva idea to me if I worked near a sulfuric acid vat." Japan has already built advanced systems to shut down nuclear power plants, cut the gas flow from public utilities and issue tsunami alerts. Similar systems could divert incoming aircraft, warn rescue workers of aftershocks and minimize damage to computer, telecommunication and financial data networks...