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Amid promises of a short-term appointment, Rosovsky agreed to return to his old post after A. Michael Spence, then-dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), suddenly announced plans to resign in April...
Luck is the residue of design, an old saying goes, and Caryle Murphy of the Washington Post has turned that into her own version of Murphy's Law. As Saddam Hussein intensified his war of words against Kuwait, she decided to fly from her bureau in Cairo to the Persian Gulf emirate for a firsthand look. Thus she was the only American reporter in Kuwait when Iraqi troops invaded on Aug. 2. Her calm, lucid eyewitness reports -- some printed without a byline to disguise the fact that she was there -- will surely be among the prime candidates for journalism prizes...
Murphy eventually made contact with someone who helped her join a convoy making a daring cross-desert escape to the Saudi border. A cheer went up when word reached the Washington Post newsroom last week that she was safe. Through the whole ordeal, the Massachusetts-born Murphy, 43, managed to keep her Yankee sense of thrift. When she telephoned the Post from Riyadh last week, an assistant tried to switch her to foreign editor David Ignatius. Murphy demurred. "This hotel is charging too much. Have David call me back...
Such difficulties have revived a debate over U.S. defense needs in the post- cold war world that had seemed all but settled. No longer faced with the threat of a Soviet onslaught in Europe, it appeared that America could safely spend far less on military might. Only two days before Iraqi armored units rolled into Kuwait, the House had slashed $24 billion from the Pentagon's $307 billion proposed budget, eliminating such high-priced weapons as the B-2 Stealth bomber and mobile MX missile. The Senate was only slightly more restrained, chopping $18 billion. While disagreeing with some items...
Moreover, the crisis has raised doubts about the Pentagon's post-cold war concepts. In his strategic review, Cheney envisioned potential conflict with states that are lightly armed compared with the U.S. Iraq, with the world's fourth largest army and a huge array of Soviet-built tanks and planes, modern missiles and artillery, is not what the Pentagon was planning for. Another rethinking is getting started...