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...dispatch, Murphy described the Iraqi attack on the Emir's palace as seen from her hotel window. "Throughout the day," she wrote, "the sound of machine-gun and mortar fire echoed through the city as a dull percussion accompaniment" to the siege. A few days later, she described the captured city as being like "the eye of a storm" as the main highways "give off a low hum from the washboard-like ruts caused by the tread of heavy tanks...
...house were from baby duckbills. The shop owner took the two paleontologists to a ranch near Choteau where she had found the fragments, and during the next few weeks the scientists unearthed an entire nest 6 ft. in diameter, separating out the fossils with a garden hose and a window screen. To nonpaleontologists, Horner writes in his recent book, Digging Dinosaurs (Workman Publishing; $17.95), the fossils resembled "a bunch of black, sticklike rocks -- jumbled and inscrutable, the way much of modern art seems to me." But to Horner, they were the remains of 15 duckbill babies, almost ready to leave...
...initiated war." So far, Bush is more amused than troubled by that debate. A greater concern is the rising specter of a recession. There is not much disagreement on that among Bush partisans. Richard Lesher, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, views the White House from his office window and allows that "recession is all around us already." There is a severe credit crunch, the banking system is in stress, real estate and durable goods are deeply depressed. "Much rides on the outcome of the Middle East," he says...
...year of amazing fast-forward history, the later stages of American thinking about the gulf crisis have been swift in arriving. Across the U.S. the element of time began to take on profound importance. The window of $ popular support for the American mission in the gulf may prove to be narrow. Says Sheldon Kamenicki, a political scientist at the University of Southern California: "As recently as the late '60s, President Bush might have had a couple of years in which to operate. Now he has only a couple or three months...
Peter (Blackheart) Savino, an associate of the Genovese crime family, was a man with a mission and a machine gun. As he drove down Scott Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was furious with PECO Corp., a window manufacturer. The company, which had ties to the Genovese family, had started to succumb to overtures by the smaller Lucchese clan. This was cutting Savino out of his kickbacks. So with the blessing of family higher-ups, Savino and a fellow gangster stormed the company's storage yard, pulled out their machine guns and blew to bits more than 200 windows that were...