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Inside, the feel of the car is distinctly Japanese. The instrument cluster and analog gauges have a user-friendly design, and there are plenty of storage cubbies, including an oversize glove box. The split-folding rear seats enable the car to carry skis and other long cargo. Perhaps my only significant objection, one that has been noted by other reviewers, is a lack of legroom in the sedan's rear seats...
...surface, a noose was tightening around Saddam's neck last week. The U.N. Security Council prepared a resolution, scheduled to be passed this week, extending the embargo to all passenger and cargo flights in and out of Iraq. The move is unlikely to have much practical effect; only a few supplies from Libya, Yemen, North Korea and Vietnam are thought to be reaching Baghdad by air. But it is one more sign of worldwide solidarity against Saddam's aggression...
...across the Atlantic. In a pinch like this, the Navy is supposed to be able to reactivate its mothballed fleet of transport vessels. It has ordered up 41 of them, but so far only 25 have got under way. The Navy last week was chartering 15 American and foreign cargo ships to pick up the slack...
...Policy, placing heavy reliance on the reserves. National Guard units today supply 53% of the Army's potential infantry and 47% of its armored fighting power. Reserves account for nearly all the Army's water-desalting capability, particularly important in arid Saudi Arabia, and 93% of the Navy's cargo- handling capacity...
...been to bring the human costs of any major military venture home to communities around the country quickly, by reserve call-ups that would swiftly test popular backing. So far, only support personnel, not combat groups, have been activated. Nonetheless, nine reservists have already died. The Air Force cargo plane they were flying to Saudi Arabia crashed last week in West Germany...