UNLIKE KUWAIT, NO ONE IN WASHINGTON IS CHAMPIONING THE KURDS`
It is the stuff of a Kurt Vonnegut novel. A despotic regime is routed in battle, but the despot remains in power. As a direct result, hundreds of thousands of...
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BUSH CAMPAIGN STRATEGIST, GOP LEADER LEE ATWATER
Lee Atwater, the most colorful and controversial political strategist of his generation and the architect of George Bush`s 1988 presidential election campaign, died Friday of cancer. He was 40. ''I...
ENVOY WON`T PAY PRICE FOR GULF ROLE, BUT BASKETBALL PLAYER HITS
Hasn`t April Glaspie suffered enough? The U.S. Senate apparently thinks so. Glaspie is the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq who, according to an Iraqi transcript that was not disputed by...
DEMOCRATS PREPARING TO THROW A PARTY, BUT CAN`T FIND A GUEST OF
This weekend a gaggle of congressional Democrats will gather in the Virginia horse country to do what they do best. They`ll conduct seminars and no doubt re-examine national priorities, consider...
NOT ONLY GENERALS HAD TO EXORCISE VIETNAM DEMONS
Fifteen years ago, author C.D.B. Bryan wrote a searing book about our last war, a book that captured, even in its title-''Friendly Fire''-the self- inflicted wound that was Vietnam. The...
WAR DELAYS `OPENING DAY` FOR `92 PRESIDENTIAL RACE
There will be a presidential election next year. The Democrats promise. While America waits out the war in the Persian Gulf, the citizenry is at least protected from the onset...
WAR`S A LOT EASIER TO LIKE WHEN FARAWAY TROOPS DO THE FIGHTING
On the home front, the preferred targets these days are those nattering nabobs of negativism who insist they can voice doubts about the war against Iraq and, at the same...
IN A PRE-ELECTION RITUAL, DEMOCRATS TAKE AIM AT PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
Even in wartime, the sight of a presidential election on the horizon engenders certain predictable forms of behavior. Reporters begin monitoring the travel schedules of suspects, looking for political forays...
PROMISE OF A NEW WORLD ORDER DOESN`T INCLUDE THE OLD PROBLEMS
When he spoke to the nation last Tuesday night, President Bush did not promise guns and butter. Instead, he promised guns and goals: a swift and deadly prosecution of the...
NEW ORDER IS UP TO U.S.: BUSH
President Bush promised the nation Tuesday night that the United States will prevail in the Persian Gulf war and asserted that only Americans can do ''the hard work of freedom''...