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...goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromise," Arafat said in 1970. "Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations" (1980). "The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and all of Palestine--from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and from Rosh Hanikra to Eilat" (1980). "The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease" (1983). "O heroic sons of Gaza Strip, O proud sons of the [West] Bank...
President Bush and the allies yesterday gave Iraq 24 hours to begin a pullout from Kuwait or face a final all-out attack. The Iraqis denounced the "shameful" U.S. ultimatum and aligned themselves instead with a Soviet peace plan...
...Allied ships swept the Gulf's waters for menacing Iraqi mines as the desperate days of diplomacy dwindled down toward an all-out assault on Kuwait...
...will be a call for Congress to permit oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an ecologically sensitive area that has been closed to drilling since it was established in 1960. Environmental groups, fearing irreversible damage to the ecosystem, are promising to fight that proposal with an all-out campaign that could turn into this year's version of the bitter Robert Bork confirmation battle. "We'll fight to the end," says Sierra Club spokesman Marty Hayden. "There's no compromise on ANWR...
...supposed to start this way. The standard scenario called for the long-awaited, and dreaded, ground war to begin in mid-to-late February with an all-out U.S. and allied aerial, artillery and missile barrage on the Iraqi army's fortifications in Kuwait, followed quickly by a massive tank and infantry assault. So how come the ground war began in the last days of January with an Iraqi attack? On a penny-ante scale, with about 1,500 men and 80-odd tanks and other armored vehicles initially engaged? Aimed at a Saudi Arabian ghost town...