February 26, 1991

Iraqi resistance to the allied ground offensive toughened only slightly on Monday, although units of the Republican Guards swung into action, and the American command said it was achieving "tremendous success" all across the front. A senior American officer said early this morning that there were some indications that an entire Iraqi Army corps might be pulling out of its positions in Kuwait City and to the south and west of the capital and heading north, taking most of its heavy weapons along. At about the same time, the Baghdad radio quoted President Saddam Hussein as ordering his troops to leave Kuwait in keeping with a new peace initiative. Reports of a Withdrawal After the broadcast, allied forces, including warplanes, continued to batter Iraqi forces, officials said. They reported that roads leading north from Kuwait City were clogged with Iraqi men and equipment, and said they were under air attack from American planes including F-15E's, A-6's and F-16's with night sensors.

With 2,900 students, Marist College is not a big school as colleges go. Five Marists and you'd have Ohio State's freshman class. So what is a mammoth I.B.M. 3090 200 E mainframe computer doing there? Just about everything.

With the fate of the proposal hanging in the balance, Mayor David N. Dinkins yesterday said that he favored Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's plan for making condoms available on request to high school students, even without parental consent. The Mayor's statement came as the seven-member Board of Education prepared to vote tomorrow on the Chancellor's condom plan, one of the most controversial issues it has tackled in many years and one that has drawn national attention. With the board apparently split on the issue, Mr. Dinkins's statement was expected to put pressure on the board member considered to be the swing vote on the plan, Dr. Westina L. Matthews, an appointee of the Mayor.

GARBAGE, garbage, everywhere: images of overflowing landfills, homeless garbage scows and polluted wells have been widely interpreted as nature's way of telling us to slow down. "The devastation wrought by economic production is closely related to the amount of materials consumed," warns John E. Young, an environmental researcher at the Worldwatch Institute. But to many solid waste specialists, the garbage crisis says more about the limits of public management and traditional regulation than the limits of nature or the decadence of the throwaway society. In their view, piecemeal approaches like banning styrofoam cups may be easy options for legislators but, in fact, divert attention from the underlying political issues, besides being of questionable benefit to the environment.

In planning its defense of Kuwait, Iraqi strategists appeared to think this war would be like their last. But the allies can do things Iran never could. Military analysis, page A15.