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Vol. 137, No. 9 MARCH 4, 1991

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THE GULF WAR: Vowing to push Saddam's forces out of Kuwait, George Bush orders the ground war to begin

Hours after the final deadline passed for Iraq to withdraw, allied forces swept into Kuwait. Finally, Saddam had the battle that he so publicly desired, but that he desperately tried to avoid in the final hours. -- What is left to liberate in Kuwait? -- The interrogation of captured soldiers offers fresh details about Baghdad's military machine. -- Yevgeni Primakov, adviser to President Gorbachev, provides the inside story of Moscow's ill-fated quest for a deal.

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NATION: New pragmatism in the...

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