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Yeltsin is impulsive and can be downright cavalier in personal relations. The carpet outside his presidential office in the Byely Dom (literally, White House), the Russian Supreme Soviet building on the Moscow River, must have been worn thin by the pacing of visitors who never got to see him at the appointed hour. Yet Yeltsin genuinely loves people and thrives on contact with them. Says he: "If I don't meet with people for a time, I start getting nervous...
Rolling Out The Red Carpet: In case you haven't heard, the ubiquitous zealots from the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) are broadening their horizons. AALARM will now function as an umbrella organization for four, count 'em, four separate committees: Life, Faith, Family and Policy. You can join one, or join...
...those Kuwaitis who spent the war in their own country, a more pressing concern was repairing their shattered lives. Late one night, 20 of them sat on a carpet in a house in Kuwait City, as General Norman Schwarzkopf's briefing on the war's final offensive flickered on a television set powered by a portable generator. It was confusing, one said, because "the Iraqis lied to us about everything. We don't know what to believe now." The only certainty was that Kuwait at last is free...
...allies are already carpet bombing the more than 100,000 Iraqi Republican Guards massed at the Kuwait-Iraq border. The hope is that if the Guards are hit hard enough, the whole Iraqi military will crumble. If not, it may become necessary to bomb Iraq's frontline troops as well in preparation for an allied ground assault. Whereas the Republican Guards are fiercely loyal to Saddam and have profited from his patronage, the soldiers holding down Kuwait are mainly conscripts, some of them as young as 17. According to defectors, many are anything but gung-ho to fight. War theorists...
...battle grinds on in the gulf, thoughts of a quick solution irresistibly spring to mind. Why not assassinate Saddam? Or threaten to nuke Baghdad? Or carpet bomb the Iraqis to kingdom come? The U.S., in fact, does have potent weapons that have not yet been unsheathed. "We have a toolbox that's full of lots of tools, and I brought them all to the party," General Colin Powell said last week. Field commander H. Norman Schwarzkopf bragged, "We could end the war in two days, but we don't want to destroy Iraq...