Powell, Schwarzkopf to Join N.Y. Parade
NEW YORK — Gens. Colin L. Powell and H. Norman Schwarzkopf will join thousands of U.S. and allied troops in the city’s Operation Welcome Home ticker-tape parade June 10 to honor Persian Gulf warriors.
“This will be New York’s and perhaps the world’s largest ticker-tape parade,” Mayor David Dinkins said Tuesday.
Dinkins said that Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Schwarzkopf, commander of allied forces in the Gulf, have accepted invitations to participate.
President Bush, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and the governors of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania also have been invited.
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