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...began last week, the American army in Kuwait received a remarkable order from the brass: stow your flags. The fearsome steel coil of tanks and artillery and Bradley fighting vehicles was told to enter enemy territory humbly, stripped of all banners, including the Stars and Stripes. This seemed slightly un-American - we're flag crazed to the point of silliness - and entirely appropriate; liberation, not conquest, was the stated purpose of the war. And so, when the Marines captured their first town, Umm Qasr, and the American flag was reflexively raised in triumph, it was quickly hauled down...
DIED. HOWARD FAST, 88, best-selling author of vivid historical novels of social justice, including Citizen Tom Paine and Freedom Road; in Old Greenwich, Conn. After refusing a request from the House Un-American Activities Committee to provide details of an antifascist group, Fast, a Communist Party member from 1943 to 1956, was jailed for contempt and blacklisted. He turned the experience into Spartacus, the story of a slave revolt in Rome, which became a 1960 Oscar-winning film...
...Tens of thousands of soldiers and armed personnel are digging trenches and setting up tents in anticipation of invading troops. They are concentrated along the street opposite the Canal hotel, where the UN inspectors were staying. They are also building trenches to the west near Abu Ghareeb prison and beyond towards Ramadi...
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...Britain failed to win UN endorsement for the war, and signs are that they may face a struggle to win endorsement for their version of the peace. Britain has taken the lead in efforts to ensure that whatever political order is established in Baghdad after the war carries UN authorization. Already, the coalition has moved to expand funds available to the UN oil-for-food program, on the basis that Iraqi oil revenues controlled by the UN would be used to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of Iraqis as a result of the war. And Blair has sought European Union...