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Most of our people were on the move. Cairo bureau chief Dean Fischer interviewed General Norman Schwarzkopf at his Riyadh headquarters and recalled the time last September when the general told him the terrain was ideal for % tank maneuvers. From Cairo, senior correspondent James Wilde reported a mood of apprehension mixed with relief; during the ground war the city was "tense to bursting." Not all our correspondents have war-zone stories to tell. Robert T. Zintl, whose job has been to coordinate the flow of all briefings and pool reports, found the enemy, and it was Arabic street signs...
...they began blowing up the oil wells, the Iraqis extended their scorched- earth policy throughout the city. They shelled and demolished government buildings including ministries and the parliament, the national museum, the main water-desalination plant, electrical generating plants, tank farms and water-storage towers...
Arthur D. Little, a Cambridge-based think tank and consulting firm, is one of these companies. "We had a small dip in our travel the week following the air invasion of the 15th of January. Shortly after that time, our patterns went back to normal," says Nick Athanasiou, corporate manager for the company. He says the company now sends as many employees abroad as it did at this time last year...
Oddly, Cheney also wants to phase out some of the battle equipment that the public has only begun to recognize. The M1A1 tank as well as the Bradley fighting vehicle, both hardy workhorses in the gulf, will no longer be produced. Assembly lines for the AH-64 Apache and AH-1S Cobra helicopters, so efficient in the fighting, will close; the Army wants a new heavy battle tank and a high-tech helicopter instead. The Navy will eliminate or scale back some weapons designed for battling the Soviets, including its Trident SLBM submarine program and its hunter-killer Seawolf submarine...
Attacking a tank in the desert is far less ambiguous than picking out one building in a crowded neighborhood for demolition. The campaign against Iraq's dug-in divisions is a textbook exercise in air warfare: hundreds of planes are in the sky every day, with F-15s flying a protective patrol high above, while attack planes blast away at tanks, artillery pieces and ammunition dumps below...