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...Administration took Saddam's threats seriously from the start. A congressional investigation last year found that Iraq had rebuilt most of its conventional Gulf War arsenal, including 200 munitions factories, and that much of its war machine -- some 2,500 tanks, 1,800 artillery pieces and 300 combat planes -- had survived Desert Storm. Two weeks ago, when Saddam dispatched 20,000 of his elite Republican Guard south to join 50,000 regular army troops on the Kuwaiti border, Pentagon officials did not share the view of many diplomats that it was all part of a bluff to pressure...
...help combat this illiteracy, the Cambridge Hospital (TCH) held a three-day long science course early last week to teach basic genetics to about 60 physicians...
Pentagon officials said some Iraqi troop units had pulled back from combat positions near Kuwait's border, citing "fairly broad movement" among the 71,000 soldiers assembled alongside the emirate. President Clinton said he was "hopeful" the withdrawal would gel, but no one in the Administration publicly let their guard down. Indeed, Defense Secretary William Perry reportedly is headed to Kuwait. The United Nations Security Council, meanwhile, spent the day hashing out ideas to nudge Saddam Hussein's men back toward Baghdad, including declaring a wide off-limits zone in southern Iraq and pressing Saddam to sell $1.6 billion worth...
...special forces troops removed their helmets and flak jackets to show they were not in combat mode but were officially cooperating with the Haitian army. Even so, Haitian officers watched sullenly in the compound of Camp d'Application last week as the Americans dismantled Haiti's only arsenal of heavy weapons. Church bells joyfully tolled noon as U.S. vehicles towed the few Haitian armored cars and artillery pieces through the camp's wide iron gates, past a mural proclaiming HONNEUR, DISCIPLINE, COMPETENCE. Along the road leading to Port-au-Prince, a crowd of civilians applauded and cheered...
...Administration invasion of Grenada and George Bush's pre-Kuwait invasion of Panama, which the Democrats now retroactively approve. Republicans who backed those invasions even though Congress was never consulted in advance now insist the plain sense of the Constitution is that the President must not send troops into combat on his own hook if it can be avoided. Discounting for hypocrisy on both sides, Clinton's critics would seem to have the better of the argument. In the case of Haiti, the President can hardly claim he must act quickly to ward off a threat...