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...true that a cease-fire could permit some repairs and possible adjustments of Iraqi forces. These benefits could be minimized by the terms of the allied announcement of a truce, which might preclude the rebuilding of bridges or the redeployment of armored units. Pinpoint attacks by our smart bombs could stop these actions even during the respite period...
...California, a Russian instructor's car was towed off the parking lot after the decorated Vietnam War veteran refused to remove PEACE IS PATRIOTIC and SAY NO TO WAR signs from the window of his van. The military said they were simply carrying out regulations requiring a permit for such displays...
...plan the President will make public preserves mostly those Energy Department suggestions that suit the Administration's step-on-the-gas philosophy. The most controversial by far will be a call for Congress to permit oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an ecologically sensitive area that has been closed to drilling since it was established in 1960. Environmental groups, fearing irreversible damage to the ecosystem, are promising to fight that proposal with an all-out campaign that could turn into this year's version of the bitter Robert Bork confirmation battle. "We'll fight to the end," says...
...Baghdad has denied the International Committee of the Red Cross access to the allied POWs. By contrast, the Red Cross was permitted last week to visit seven Iraqi POWs hospitalized in Saudi Arabia and 35 Iraqis in Britain whose status changed from visiting student to POW when it was discovered that they were members of the Iraqi armed forces. Baghdad's refusal to permit inspection of the POWs served only to arouse fears about what is being done to the men. Last week's reports out of Baghdad that a downed allied pilot had been stoned by Iraqi citizens, despite...
...possibility of recovery. Doctors have told Oliver Wanglie, Helga's husband of 53 years, that they want to end life support for a patient whose prospects seem so hopeless. Cost is not an issue: the family's health insurance covers almost all expenses. But Wanglie refuses to permit the demise of his spouse, who, according to him, believed firmly that only God should make such a determination. "She told me that if anything happened to her, she didn't want anything done to shorten her life," says Wanglie, 86. "I promised her I would respect that...