Word: schwarzkopf
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...missiles rained down on Tel Aviv but also the deaths of 28 U.S. troops whose barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, were demolished by a Scud. Those 28 accounted for a fifth of all U.S. deaths in the war. Part of the problem was that in the beginning, Norman Schwarzkopf, the U.S. Army general who ran the war, underestimated the Scud. After all, the crude, 40-ft. Soviet-designed missile, which is in the arsenals of some 25 nations, has a bull's-eye a mile across. Schwarzkopf called it a "mosquito" that was "clumsy and obsolete." He resisted sending commandos...
...satisfied himself that "this did not appear to be the case." He dismisses as "a form of harassment" what he says is an ongoing FBI probe of his wife based on allegations that she was a KGB spy. Ritter's role as a ballistic - missile expert on General Norman Schwarzkopf's staff during the Gulf War gave him the expertise needed for his job with unscom. He took part in more than 30 inspection missions during the '90s and earned the enmity of the Iraqis, who accused him of being a spy, with his allegations that they were hiding their...
...strategic thinkers against a hasty march on Iraq. Former Reagan and Bush 1 aide Lawrence Eagleburger said the U.S. had no grounds to take out Saddam unless Baghdad was about to attack America or its allies. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Gulf War hero General Norman Schwarzkopf recognized the importance of ousting Saddam, but cautioned against the U.S. acting alone. The harshest warning of all came from former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, still a close associate of the President's father, who warned that the potentially catastrophic consequences outweighed any good that an invasion could achieve...
...will not be able to find and develop the medicines and therapies we desperately need to treat debilitating diseases. As a board member of Friends of Cancer Research and a cancer survivor, I am all for clinical trials, but they should be done the right way. GENERAL H. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF U.S. Army, Retired Washington...
There are plenty of war heroes on the screen these days - Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, even Josh Hartnett is killing bad guys in a theater near you. The Gulf War brought you Norman Schwarzkopf, talking a good war for the news cameras; in this war your media hero is steely-eyed, clench-jawed Donald Rumsfeld...