William Neikirk

Until the Persian Gulf war, Alfonso Pineda never had been in a tank. But now in Kuwait`s forbidding southern desert, he found himself in the commander`s seat of the 67-ton...

To bolster that equipment, the Marines brought in a ''Ninja Dozer,'' named after the Japanese warriors. It was essentially an armored bulldozer. After Shaw`s team fired off a line charge,...

The flare sticking out of the sand burned with an orange glow, a beacon in the cold, wet darkness of early morning and a warning that the Iraqi minefield was...

Joseph Schumpeter, the iconoclastic economist of an earlier day, thought capitalist economies needed a good, cleansing recession now and then. Economists think like this. They`re dismal oracles who have the...

Way back in the presidential campaign so long, long ago, George Bush delighted partisan audiences when he said that the most frightening words in the English language were these: ''Hi,...

With the economy shuddering from rising layoffs and a second sharp drop in stock prices, President Bush is facing conflicts over economic policy within his administration that are as fundamental...

Confidence is a fragile thing. Once it is broken, it is incredibly hard to put back together again. It shatters in a hundred little pieces, requiring more than one skilled...

Of all the ideas for bringing the U.S. economy out of the doldrums, the most unusual I`ve heard to date is this: Bring back Ronald Reagan. To no one`s surprise,...

The Democrats, sensing opportunity where there was none six months ago, now are taking great delight in comparing George Bush to Herbert Hoover. It is grossly unfair, of course, but...

One reason the economy is in so much trouble is that too many people here have a stake in past mistakes. It`s a peculiar Washington disease, easy to diagnose but...