Word: arsenale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five helicopters were ready. When the Senators declined, uniformed officers in the room laughed derisively, Simpson says. (Later the Senators spoke among themselves of the hazards of flying in Iraqi helicopters.) Saddam told them that should Israel ever attack, his generals had instructions to launch everything in their arsenal at the Jewish state -- even if he were dead...
...gulf war is a test not just of armies but of arms, and the big loser is already clear: France. During the Iran-Iraq war, Baghdad laid out $16 billion for Mirage jets, Exocet missiles and other French-made weapons -- close to a third of the Iraqi arsenal. But when the dust settles from Operation Desert Storm, French arms makers may find they have taken as bad a beating as Saddam's soldiers. While American jets and missiles and British aircraft have dazzled the world, Iraq's French-supplied firepower has been drubbed or simply withdrawn...
Thus SDI has suddenly gained a new respectability. The White House and Senate minority leader Robert Dole are encouraging more spending on the system. Mindful that the Soviet Union still has 2,300 ICBMs in its arsenal, and confident that the U.S. public no longer views Star Wars as an unattainable magic elixir, the Pentagon proposes to boost SDI research from its present $3.2 billion to $4.6 billion...
Like last year's volume of his autobiography, Memoirs, Moscow and Beyond reveals one of the great figures of modern history's essential humanism. In Memoirs Sakharov told the story of his early life, his involvement in the development of the U.S.S.R.'s nuclear arsenal and his transformation, in the 1960s, into a leading Soviet dissident. The first book also documented Sakharov and his second wife Elena Bonner's internal exile in Gorky and their persistent struggles for human rights despite KGB harassment...
Bush's decision to reject the Soviet peace plan had two objectives, scholars say. Not only did the U.S. want to reduce Hussein's arsenal, but the Administration wanted to leave the Iraqi leader little room to claim any sort of victory--military, moral or otherwise. Arabs would then have little reason to regard him as a hero, experts...