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- GRAPEVINE, Page 11Footnotes From The Front
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- An up-to-the-minute briefing on the Persian Gulf crisis
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
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- RAISING THE FLAG
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- Concerned that the Saudis might somehow view U.S. troops as
- an occupying force, some overzealous field commanders had
- ordered troops to remove flag patches from their uniforms. But
- the American Civil Liberties Union protested to Defense
- Secretary Dick Cheney about a potential infringement of First
- Amendment rights. Since then, the Stars and Stripes have
- quietly reappeared.
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- SORRY, THE PARKING LOT IS FULL
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- How large is the military-aircraft presence in Saudi Arabia?
- One indication: the Pentagon was forced to turn down a Dutch
- offer to send a squadron of F-16s to the area because there is
- no space left on any air base for the planes.
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- A TAXING PROBLEM
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- Senate minority leader Bob Dole plans to introduce a bill
- this month in Congress that will waive interest charges for
- gulf-based soldiers who can't complete their tax returns by
- April 15. IRS officials recognize the problem but say
- legislation is needed to allow the exemptions.
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- THE WAR DIVIDEND
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- The Defense Department has seized upon the gulf crisis as
- an excuse to expand the 1,000-sq.-mi. Fort Irwin, a high-tech
- desert-training facility in Southern California, by some 390
- sq. mi. Environmentalists pledge to stall any such action.
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- ORDER AMONG THIEVES
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- Intelligence sources say the sacking of Kuwait took place
- under an unwritten "looting hierarchy." The new Iraqi Governor
- of Kuwait got first crack at the treasures stored in royal
- palaces, while commanders looted the residences of businessmen.
- Support units were allowed only into ordinary homes, which they
- stripped of VCRs, refrigerators and bathroom fixtures.
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