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Some influential Americans, including Henry Kissinger, have been urging Bush to launch a strike against Saddam before he has time to deploy the hostages as "human shields" at Iraqi military installations. But that option has been ruled out because the Administration believes it is essential for Iraq to be seen as the initiator of a military conflict. If America were to strike first and the Iraqi leader killed hostages in retaliation, says an Administration official, "we might well be blamed at home and abroad for recklessly provoking him." There is little doubt, however, that any actual harm to the hostages...
...another soldier appears out of the darkness and tells the machine gunners that their platoon has ended up in the wrong place. It is too close to the road. In fact, it turns out that the platoon would be in the fire zone if the 82nd were to launch a mortar attack...
...first assignment for arriving U.S. units, said Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, is "to deter any further Iraqi aggression" and, if deterrence fails, "to defend Saudi Arabia against attack." Some in Washington are worried that the dispatch of U.S. troops might provoke Saddam Hussein to launch a pre- emptive blitz. "He sees us coming," says Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "He could try to seize the oil fields and hold them hostage before we have enough men there to stop...
...Saddam is not easily intimidated. He is convinced that no nation has the nerve to take him on. His conquest might have been deterred, but undoing it now will be nigh impossible. Baghdad radio warned that Iraq would "make Kuwait a graveyard for those who launch any aggression." The feckless international response to his muscle flexing during the past decade has nourished his belief that he has little to fear if he misbehaves. A loner, he has rarely if ever been told no -- probably because the few who tried to do so tended to wind up dead...
...players who noticed his resemblance to home-run king Hammerin' Hank Aaron (the M.C., added later, stands for Master of Ceremonies, rapspeak for band leader). After a two-year hitch in the Navy, Hammer borrowed some start-up cash from a couple of A's outfielders to launch Bustin' Records. He couldn't play an instrument, and he sang with more enthusiasm than finesse, but his first album, 1988's Let's Get It Started, produced three Top 10 singles. And those hits have just kept on coming. The proof, he'd say, is in the numbers. If Hammer...