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        missiles. (Aviation Week & Space Technology-, January 21, p. 60.)

           Iraq announces that it has dispersed captured allied airmen among scientific and economic targets
        as well as among other selected targets in a move intended to raise fears that the captured airmen were
        being used as human shields in order to deter allied air attacks against these facilities. (New York
        Times, January 22, p. Al.)

           The Persian Gulf War has drawn servicewomen closer to the front lines than any other war in the
        nation's history with a greater likelihood of casualties among women and the specter of large numbers
        of American women returning home in body bags. Nearly 27,000 women (or 6%) are among the
        460,000 American service personnel in the Persian Gulf region performing tasks ranging from piloting
        of supply planes to military police guard duty. (New York Times, January 22, p. Al.)

           A CBS News/New York Times poll finds that public opinion remains solidly behind President Bush
        with 84% approving of his handling of the Iraqi crisis and 78% say the U.S. was right to attack Iraq.
        However, only 20% say they think the war will be over in a few weeks - down from 40% several days
        earlier. (New York Times, January 22, p. Al2.)

   )    --- President Bush officially designates the Persian Gulf area as a combat zone thereby exempting armed
        forces personnel serving there from paying income tax on their military pay. (Washington Post, January
        22, p. Al6.)

   January 22
        -- Tuesday --- An Iraqi Scud missile evades two American Patriot missiles and slams into a Tel Aviv
        suburb leaving three people dead and 70 wounded. (New York Times, January 23, p. Al.)

           As the skies over Iraq clear, the allied air war intensifies. To date, over 10,000 sorties have been
        flown. Much of the air war is directed at the Republican Guards in Kuwait and against Basra, Iraq's
        second largest city. Preparations for a ground campaign also seem to be expanding as thousands of
        Western troops took positions along the Saudi border with Kuwait. In the Persian Gulf, American forces
        attacked and apparently sank two Iraqi ships, at least one of which is described as a mine-laying vessel.
        (New York Times, January 23, p. Al.)

           Military planners and analysts say they believe that much of Iraq's military might is still unused and
        that Saddam Hussein's strategy is to prolong the war as long as possible. (Washington Post, January
j       23, p. Al.)

        ---Iraqi television shows two more men it identifies as downed American fliers. (New York Times,
        January 23, p. AlO.)

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