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There are those who say it was all a bluff, that such a system could never have been and will never be successfully developed. Put that aside for a moment, and consider a more relevant fact: If it was a bluff, the Soviets didn't know it. And more to the point, Reagan as President had the credibility with the Soviets to make a serious threat. (And a particularly Reaganesque threat it was: he said not only would we build SDI, but we would also share it with them...
...with support for a military strike almost undetectable either at home or abroad, those U.N. handcuffs shouldn't chafe President Clinton overmuch. And when those U.S. warships in the Gulf recede and Saddam gets up to his old tricks, the council may wish it had left Clinton something to bluff with...
...White House is ready for Starr to call its bluff, having confirmed Thursday the rehiring of Neil Eggleston, a former White House lawyer, to fight for Clinton should push come to legal shove...
...three explanations: Yeltsin, whose administration brokered the November deal that brought UNSCOM inspectors back to Iraq, could be frustrated by his envoys' lack of success this time. Then there's the Duma, which adopted a strongly-worded pro-Iraq resolution Wednesday. Finally, the Russian president has form for such bluff and bluster. Remember his promise to slash Russia's nuclear forces by a third, later dismissed as "tiredness"? Still, in the slide toward crisis, this is one threat Clinton can't afford to ignore...
...immunity dance" proceeded in fits and starts through the week--part flirtation, part bluff, part intimidation, which will need to end in an embrace for both sides to survive. It was clear by week's end that Lewinsky herself was now a target of a criminal investigation. Starr told the FBI he was going to need "additional resources" to do all the legwork. And he began issuing subpoenas that would send agents throughout the city with a vacuum cleaner...