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...event, George Bush has made the humanitarian task more difficult by cloaking the U.S. mission in self-defeating rhetoric. Stung by those who say he ended the gulf war too soon (which is arguable) and that he moved to aid the hapless Kurds too late after inciting them to overthrow Saddam (which isn't), the President is now bothered about the prospect of U.S. troops getting "bogged down" in a "further military" involvement, a "permanent presence" -- a "quagmire...
STOPPED SHORT -- SCHWARZKOPF. That headline in the hawkish Washington Times last week stung President Bush into a mercifully brief but nonetheless unfortunate and ironic tiff with the nation's newest idol. Unfortunate because the White House cast it in terms of who said what to whom when, thus obscuring a genuinely important question: Was the cease-fire Bush ordered after 100 hours of the ground war premature? Ironic, because the White House could easily have won that debate...
...A.N.C. has been stung by speculation that it was responsible for the muzzling of Kgase last month, as well as the silencing of a second witness and the disappearance of a third. Some A.N.C. insiders fear that if the organization does not dispel that impression, its image will be tarnished...
...Stung by the criticism, Bonn and Tokyo in late January ponied up sizable additional aid: $5.5 billion and $9 billion, respectively. Germany also pledged to send antiaircraft missile units to Turkey and defensive military equipment to Israel. Japan assigned five military C-130 transport aircraft to repatriate Asian workers fleeing the war zone. Yet so powerful is their nations' abhorrence of war that Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu risked political rebellion...
Condemnation from the reformers stung the President into counterattack. Marching onto the rostrum of the Supreme Soviet, he proposed suspending the country's five-month-old law that guarantees freedom of the press. "We are going through a period of the most serious decisions," he said. "People need objectivity...