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...technology that was developed long before SDI got to the drawing board. Still, SDI backers argue that the success of the Patriot teaches a significant lesson about the need to prepare against ICBMs. "All you'd have to do is watch the Scud missile battles over Tel Aviv and Riyadh," says Cheney, "to have a sense of the extent to which ballistic-missile capability is a threat to U.S. forces...
...these people--most of them old enough to fight in the Gulf--war was a game. They hadn't thought about the people dying in Tel Aviv and Baghdad bombings, about children their own age dying in the streets and on the battlefields. They had thought (minimally) about our needs--gasoline--and about our goals--to win. And they were cheering wildly for our team, waving their flags, yelling their chants and sleeping well in their beds while around the world, their peers died in falling buildings...
...time. Little ones are afraid to lose sight of their parents. And there are complaints about the foul-smelling, claustrophobic gas masks, which have caused children to vomit. Families are haunted by the fact that a toddler suffocated to death in her mask. Talma Rosen, a Tel Aviv mother, faces a torrent of questions from her sons Jonathan, 6, and Daniel, 10, who ask about weapons systems and moving to a safer place. "I have told them that the chances statistically of us getting hurt are very small," she says. "As for military questions, I refer them to their father...
...quickly alert his family of government warnings. Others take a stoic view. "I'm not frightened anymore. Once I get the mask on, I spend the rest of the time in our sealed room playing Nintendo," says Yoni Radzinski, 10, of Herzliya, a town just northeast of Tel Aviv. "By and large, Israeli kids are coping very well," says psychologist Robert Asch of the Ministry of Education. He predicts that tensions and boredom, a growing problem, will ease still further once children begin returning to school. But a residue of fear and bad dreams is likely to remain even after...
...tough restrictions. Israel has long required that all material relating to military security be subject to censorship. Revealing such details as the exact location of Scud missile hits is forbidden. (The information could theoretically be used by the Iraqis to improve their targeting.) After a Scud attack in Tel Aviv, NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher broadcast prematurely that there were casualties; Israeli authorities retaliated by cutting NBC's satellite link. NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw had to apologize on air for the inadvertent violation before the line was restored. "We apologized for telling the truth," said NBC News president Michael Gartner later...