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...does Beverly Hills' ultra-luxe Rodeo Drive get ready for an expected retail slump? By expanding, of course. So it was that klieg lights flashed and 50 fashion models strutted their stuff last week to launch a 23-store mall that cost $170 million to build on the famed shopping street. Known as Two Rodeo, the two-block project, which is designed to look as if it had been in place for a century, features an Italianate cobblestone lane called Via Rodeo that comes complete with a piazza, sculpted travertine fountains and a staircase patterned after the Spanish Steps...
Shannon, a former U.S. representative, has been attorney general since 1987, using the post to launch a legal battle against the Seabrook nuclear power plant and to force the repeal of a school policy discriminating against employees with AIDS...
...There is more tension now than at any time since before the '67 war," he said, his face weary with worry. Just the night before Saddam Hussein had charged that Israel was repainting its fighter planes with American colors. Saddam Hussein had said Israel was planning to launch a preemptive airstrike similar to the bombing raid on his country in the early '80s. If this continued, he warned, Iraq would attack Israel...
Another warning of terrorist attacks came from the leader of a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Abul Abbas, head of the Palestine Liberation Front, told the American news network CNN that his group could launch attacks "if the United States initiates the attack on the Arab people...
...elimination of the incurably murderous Baghdad dictatorship by Western . . . economic and military reprisals." His fellow columnist at the Times, William Safire, even offers a game plan: "Our declared-war strategy should be to (1) suppress Iraqi air defenses; (2) take out war production at the 26 key targets; (3) launch a three-front land war at the Turkish, Syrian and Kuwaiti borders . . . Our great danger is delay." A Wall Street Journal editorial writer daydreams: "If we take Baghdad and install a MacArthur regency, that is the optimum...