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...oust Iraqi forces from Kuwait. After Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recommended that 100,000 U.S. troops be added to the 210,000 already deployed along the Persian Gulf, there were widespread rumors and speculation that the offensive would start soon after this week's congressional elections -- or before Christmas, or early in the new year. In contrast, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev declared that any "military solution" was "unacceptable" after his personal envoy, Yevgeni Primakov, returned from a second exploratory mission to Baghdad. There Primakov claimed to find Saddam "more...
...wonder the aging cold warriors around Washington were dismayed last week. "At the start of this, we said we were not going to gradually escalate our presence the way we did in Vietnam," said former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger. "Now, 90 days later, we are asking ourselves whether we should add another 100,000 to our forces in Saudi Arabia. The circumstances of military logistics force on you the very escalation you renounce." When that possibility seeped out of the Pentagon, L.B.J.'s pledge against "mindless escalation" came back to haunt the broad avenues of the capital...
...Penn traditionally has been a running team," Gordian said. "I expect them to run the ball a lot, and I'm actually pretty psyched about that. If we can get up on them early, they'll start going...
...Hampshire, burdened by last week's death of Coach Bobby Kullen, have given Dick Umile--who will finish the year behind the bench--something to look forward to with a 3-0 start...
...begin with, we need to start off better than last year," Cornell Coach Brian McCutcheon said. "Certainly there were times during the course of games where we were not as consistent as we would've liked to have been. By Christmas, we adjusted and went 12-2 from then on. I'd like to see us play that kind of hockey all year...