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...finish off the thief of Baghdad. Last month Richard Perle, a former Pentagon official, wrote in the New York Times that a shield to defend Saudi Arabia is not enough. What's needed, he said, is a "desert sword" -- an offensive operation to decapitate Iraq's leadership and destroy its military capacity. Last week, in a syndicated column, Henry Kissinger said he would be "very uneasy" if the U.S. waited beyond the end of the year to take "military measures." Otherwise, he warned, domestic and international support will begin to unravel. The world, he predicts, would welcome and support...
...Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. After five hours of discussion, capping more than 15 years of negotiation, the superpowers agreed "in principle" to reduce their conventional arms in Europe to the same level. Never before in history have two sides willingly agreed to destroy so many weapons...
...armored combat vehicles and 20,000 artillery pieces on each side in the area stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains. While the totals for each of the alliances are the same, the effect is immensely lopsided. To come down to those ceilings, NATO will have to destroy 2,900 tanks, for example, and no artillery. The Warsaw Pact, however, must scrap nearly 23,000 tanks and 26,900 artillery pieces. "Of course," said Shevardnadze with a smile, "the Soviet Union made all the concessions...
Baseball's best team can dazzle you with speed, numb you with power, destroy you with their arrogance -- and that's just when Rickey Henderson is at bat. Add the glower of Jose Canseco and the death stare of Dave Stewart, and you have a team that looks as tough as it plays. This October, the A's know that their true opponents will not be the Pirates or Red Sox or Reds, but the ghosts of great teams past...
...SHOULD not learn to rely on the SPR to get us through crises, because the SPR is not very reliable itself. According to a report prepared for the Pentagon by RMI, a group of terrorists could spend one night in Louisiana knocking out pipelines which would destroy the ability to supply three-quarters of all the oil and gas used by the eastern United States...