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...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...
...used to be played by communism. But moral squalor at home would do as well. Buchanan pounded at "the agenda that Clinton & Clinton ((meaning Bill and Hillary)) would impose on America -- abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat units...
...reasons that I think we're in perceived difficulty is that I kept trying to work with this Congress all year, when I've been getting bashed by the candidates on the other side, joined by a lot of editorial critique. I've left the field of combat to the opposition. That is going to change. Not only as it affects the man I'll be running against, but as it affects the Congress itself...
...World War II. The generals would prefer another Desert Storm: an obvious enemy, a clear military objective, wide-open terrain suited to air attacks and fast armor sweeps, an overwhelming preponderance of force. What they see in Bosnia is Vietnam, Lebanon, a quagmire of murky goals and slogging infantry combat, where air power cannot be decisive and enemies, allies and civilians are indistinguishable...
Gainesville's Mosquito Unit, along with everybody else involved in what is anthropocentrically called pest control, is rethinking its philosophy and strategy. The mosquitoes are the same, crafty and cunning as ever. But the weapons and tactics used to combat them are changing fast. Chemicals are out; biologicals are in. Dumping poisons indiscriminately is no longer in vogue; figuring out ecologically correct ways to get mosquitoes to do themselves in is all the rage. "The era of insecticides is coming to an end," says Donald Barnard, the Mosquito Unit's chief. "They're still our first line of defense...