Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies at age 78

WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf War against Iraq, died Thursday. He was 78. A sister of Schwarzkopf's, Ruth Barenbaum of Middlebury, Vt., said he died in Tampa, Fla., from complications from pneumonia. "We're still in a state of shock," she said. "This was a surprise to us all." A much-decorated combat soldier in Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was known popularly as "Stormin' Norman" for his notoriously explosive temper. He served in his last military assignment in...