Word: blitzkrieg
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...such a contingency. Israel could provide the American units with tactical air support-as long as its hostile Arab neighbors did not take advantage of the broader conflict and attack Israel and thus tie down its air force. Moreover, while the possibility of a Soviet blitzkrieg into Iran or Pakistan cannot be discounted, a new war in the region is far more likely to cast Israel once again in its all too familiar role as a combatant taking on the Arabs or as a muscle-bound but paralyzed pariah on the sidelines of another inter-Arab conflict...
...continued to seek evidence that might link him to the mass murders, Williams took the offensive. His lawyer, former City Solicitor Mary Welcome, sought a federal court injunction to restrain 17 news organizations and eleven law enforcement agencies and officials from releasing information that might harm her client. The "blitzkrieg of media harassment" and various statements by the authorities, charged Welcome, have already "irreparably destroyed the presumption of innocence" to which Williams is constitutionally entitled if brought to trial. Williams' petition named, among others, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, the three major TV networks...
...West German intelligence-share a passion for cactus growing, exploring ways to XPD mealy bugs. Finally, Deighton delivers a telling pronouncement. The well-heeled film producer Max Breslow, a former SS officer, notes a wall of video games in a Los Angeles pizzeria. "U-Boat Commander" and "Blitzkrieg" produce a deafening flood of electronic babble. "This was the war we won, the war that came after the war." Deighton, in top form, wins this one as well...
...ideology having proved vulnerable to compromise and commercialization, rock and roll slunk away from the topic of war. America's popular music forgot about Vietnam long before the last helicopters left, and by the mid-'70s war appeared on disc only as tongue-in-cheek posing--the Ramones sang "Blitzkrieg Bop" in 1976--or historical ballad--Al Stewart's "Roads to Moscow...
...analysts had several answers. One was that the Iraqis were following a plodding. Soviet-inspired strategy requiring large quantities of cumbersome materiel that hampered rapid troop movements. Another was that the overconfident Iraqis had misjudged Iran's capacity to resist and had prepared themselves only for a brief blitzkrieg. A further Iraqi miscalculation was to assume that the Khomeini regime would crumble at the first military attack because of internal dissensions...