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...plans to send quick-reaction forces from both land and air into the city to deliver rapid-fire punches at new targets as they are identified by fresh intelligence. Already A-10s and other warplanes, aided by AH-1 and AH-64 helicopter gunships, are hitting sites inside the city limits. Topping the list of appealing targets are locations where Saddam or members of his inner circle might be. Next are outposts of the Special Republican Guard...
...forces build up around the city, quick-reaction strikes could be supplanted by a more methodical combing of the area by U.S. ground troops. The city will be "sliced like a pizza," a Defense official says, into sectors that will be studied, cleared, probed and ultimately rid of Iraqi forces. The idea is that as U.S. units secure more and more territory, the regime's leaders would be pushed into an ever shrinking area. At the same time, the U.S. would seize control of city services like water, electricity and communications...
...United Way canceled her Florida speech, saying it would be "divisive." Her reaction: "Disturbing...
...member of the administrative staff with professional and personal commitments outside of Harvard, I have mixed emotions to Judd B. Kessler’s recent column (“The 168-Hour Week,” April 8). My knee-jerk reaction to the statistic that students spend seven hours a day on academics is “so what?” One could argue it’s your job and as staff, we work seven hours a day (or more). Students at Harvard Extension School plus graduate students are juggling full-time jobs and family lives...
Inevitably, U.S. military intervention abroad will draw comparisons to Vietnam—but it seems that the artistic reaction to this war remains far from the charged days of ’60s and ’70s, when artists stated often dogmatic opinions through the canvas and the microphone...