Word: buildups
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Clinton's national security advisers first learned of the Iraqi buildup from spy-satellite photos. Washington immediately sent a blunt message to Iraqi officials at the U.N., saying it would be a "serious mistake" to move against the Kurds, but Saddam Hussein did not heed the warning. On Friday night Tariq Aziz, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, announced that a "limited military operation" had been undertaken in response to an appeal from the K.D.P. State Department officials confirmed that in some parts of the city, K.D.P. soldiers fought alongside Iraqi forces, and K.D.P. radio broadcasts also told people to turn...
...results could complicate matters for doctors. No one knows where Lp(a) comes from or what its normal role in the body is. Scientists believe people's Lp(a) levels are 90% determined by their genes. Lp(a) may promote cholesterol buildup on artery walls. But there is no sure way to reduce high levels of it, although the Framingham researchers speculate that aspirin, which thins the blood, may mitigate its effects. Preliminary evidence also suggests that red wine may drive down the levels of Lp(a)--possibly explaining why the French can eat lots of high-fat foods without...
...correlate thousands of overseas passport numbers, travel itineraries of foreign nationals, secret cables from spies on the ground, reports from friendly foreign intelligence services and phone intercepts worldwide. CIA sources tell Waller that this method has worked before: in 1991, as the center was tracking Saddam Hussein's military buildup before the Persian Gulf War, the CIA computers were able to identify a group of potential Iraqi terrorists before they even attempted an attack on American targets. By tracking one of the terrorists, an Iraqi military intelligence officer, the agents discovered intimate details of many of the terror cells that...
...containment policy has critics--some European countries wonder why the U.S. does not engage Iran and Iraq as it does Syria, whose regime is equally brutal--but few would dispute the strategic value of protecting oil. The question, though, is whether the U.S. has become so aggressive in its buildup that it risks undermining the gulf countries even as it protects them. The U.S. tries to maintain a low profile, but as the Dhahran bombing and the one in Riyadh that preceded it both tragically indicate, the presence of U.S. soldiers incites radical Islamists. Many Arabs who are not extremists...
Floods. Droughts. Hurricanes. Twisters. Are all the bizarre weather extremes we've been having lately normal fluctuations in the planet's atmospheric systems? Or are they a precursor of the kind of climactic upheavals that can be expected from the global warming caused by the continued buildup of CO2 and the other so-called greenhouse gases? Scientists are still not sure. But one of the effects of the unusual stretch of weather over the past 15 years has been to alert researchers to a new and perhaps even more immediate threat of the warming trend: the rapid spread of disease...