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Although the practice has died down recently, teenage judges presided over so-called people's courts that almost casually handed out death sentences to suspected traitors. A youth invention that has not disappeared is "necklacing," the method of mob execution in which a gasoline-doused rubber tire is thrown around a suspected traitor's body and set ablaze...
Less than a month after it approved an order urging the state and federal governments to facilitate complete withdrawal from the Gulf, the council has turned around and thrown its weight behind U.S. policy and the troops carrying...
That could become crucial in the next few weeks. One of the top-priority U.S. targets is the Republican Guards, Saddam's crack troops, who form a mobile reserve to be thrown into the eventual land battle for Kuwait at the most critical points. A high British officer says the allies will not launch the climactic ground offensive until at least 30%, and preferably 50%, of the Guards' fighting power is destroyed from the air. But how will they know when that point is reached? Washington officials admit they are having trouble gauging how much damage bombing is doing...
...Illinois Supreme Court declared the SRA unconstitutional because it violates the "one person, one vote," principle of constitutional law. Although the state legislature has tried to salvage the SRA by declaring ex post facto that the LSCs are appointed by the mayor of Chicago, this constitutional challenge has obviously thrown a giant fly into the reform ointment...
...Kuwait into Iraq proper, looping back to cut off the dug-in troops. As for tactics, the primary way to breach the fortifications would be simply to try to blast a way through with aerial bombs. If that does not work, combat engineers would use "line charges" -- bombs thrown out on cables to form a string of close-together explosions -- to break through obstacles. Tanks fitted with bulldozer blades would then plow a way through craters. Bridges might be thrown across trenches. Artillery would lay down a "box barrage," a three-sided pattern of fire to prevent the Iraqis from...