SOME MINEFIELDS ARE SCARIER THAN OTHERS

If the president were as anxious for the same success at home that he's achieved abroad, wouldn't he announce Operation Domestic Storm?

1% -- Bill Tammeus, Kansas City Star

THE YELLOW RIBBON WAS NICE,

BUT . . .

I've been going over my taxes with my accountant. It looks like I really do support the troops overseas.

-- Bob Yarashus, copy editor, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.

BORN TO LOSE

Saddam Hussein has fired his interior minister and appointed a cousin, Ali Hassan al Majid, to the job. We'll have to wait and see if the Iraqi people run out of patience before Saddam runs out of relatives.

;/ -- Dick Goldberg, Los Angeles Daily Journal