home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=91TT0103>
- <title>
- Jan. 14, 1991: Footnotes From The Front
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 14, 1991 Breast Cancer
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 11
- Footnotes From The Front
- </hdr><body>
- <p>An up-to-the-minute briefing on the Persian Gulf crisis
- </p>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
- </p>
- <p> RAISING THE FLAG
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> SORRY, THE PARKING LOT IS FULL
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> A TAXING PROBLEM
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> THE WAR DIVIDEND
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> ORDER AMONG THIEVES
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
-
-