United States Military Assaults Kuwait

Defense Secretary Dick Cheney will recommend to President Bush today that he allow warplanes to continue bombing Iraqi troops for a while longer before ordering a ground assault into occupied Kuwait, senior Bush Administration officials said.

Defense Secretary Dick Cheney will recommend to President Bush today that he allow warplanes to continue bombing Iraqi troops for a while longer before ordering a ground assault into occupied Kuwait, senior Bush Administration officials said.

The images flicker on television screens throughout the giant battleship, with the sultry strains of jazz from the BBC as a soothing audio backdrop. The camera glides over images of stark-still Iraqi troop bunkers, then pans across the Kuwaiti desert to an electronic warfare site. As the bass backs off and the saxophone picks up, the burned-out shells of armored personnel carriers come into view.

The images flicker on television screens throughout the giant battleship, with the sultry strains of jazz from the BBC as a soothing audio backdrop. The camera glides over images of stark-still Iraqi troop bunkers, then pans across the Kuwaiti desert to an electronic warfare site. As the bass backs off and the saxophone picks up, the burned-out shells of armored personnel carriers come into view.