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...Arlen '52 wrote in his book The Living-Room War (which coined the common phrase) that television coverage of Vietnam "all sounded very safe and institutional, and rather like a rerun." Arlen chronicled a history of rigged enemy casualty figures, over-statements about the effectiveness of "search-and-destroy missions" and air raids, and lies by senior administration officials about the need for more troops. All the while, this information went unquestioned by TV news. The military's war had become the media...
...care about what's happening in the Gulf, but at the soiree, it was not at the forefront of conversation. Harvard students have enough trouble leading socially stunted lives in this place where a chilling intellectual ice threatens to destroy every party and bar scene in Cambridge. So when some senior women finally get to invite dates to a dance and have some fun, let them do just that. Leslie R. Crutchfield...
...bright sunshine of the Rose Garden, he remarked that he had given Saddam Hussein "one last chance . . . to do what he should have done more than six months ago: withdraw from Kuwait without condition or further delay." Saddam, he said, had responded only with "a redoubling" of efforts "to destroy completely Kuwait and its people" -- a reference to the "scorched earth" torching of oil wells and systematic executions of Kuwaitis, some allegedly snatched at random off the streets of Kuwait City. So, he said, the war that began Jan. 16 with the start of history's most intense bombing campaign...
...Security Council could never have demanded that Iraq pull out of Kuwait, or organized the worldwide embargo against Iraq, or approved the use of force against Baghdad. Continued U.S.-Soviet cooperation is a cornerstone on which Bush hopes to build a new world order; conversely, nothing could destroy the alliance's hopes so totally as any Kremlin reversion to its old role as Iraq's ally, protector and principal arms supplier. Consequently, Washington has spared little effort to keep the Soviets aligned with, if not exactly members of, the anti-Iraq coalition...
...interrupt her monologue, in which she outlined in a most condensed way a position that was gaining greater momentum: not to limit things to a withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait but to inflict a devastating blow at Iraq, "to break the back" of Saddam and destroy the entire military, and perhaps industrial, potential of that country...