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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spying binge, the former Navy counterintelligence analyst gave hundreds of classified documents to Israeli contacts for some $45,000 in cash, claiming "anxiety" over Israel's vulnerability to attack. The passage of time has also given more weight to Pollard's excuse. His defenders, who want his sentence commuted, contend that his information on the Iraqi military was crucial to Israel during the gulf...
However that comes out, the contretemps spotlights a broader problem: only the unprecedented rights to prowl everywhere and look at anything in the country that the U.N. gained because of the cease-fire have enabled it to expose Saddam's cheating. If Iraq had to contend with just the regular inspections of known nuclear facilities, required by the 1970 nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which it signed, it might be well on the way to reviving a bomb-building program that allied bombing was intended to interrupt. As recently as last November, IAEA inspectors toured the nuclear facilities Baghdad acknowledged possessing...
Israeli hawks contend that the settlements actually help the peace process by putting pressure on the Arabs while making Jews feel more secure. Palestinians see the continuing land confiscations and de facto annexation as proof that Israel does not intend to make any compromises. Whether Shamir can keep altering the status quo in Israel's favor without paying any price depends almost entirely on Washington. So far, Shamir appears unconvinced that Bush has to be taken seriously...
Congressional Democrats are seething over NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF's condemnation of Washington "fairies" who exaggerated the dangers of war. Many legislators contend that during a Riyadh briefing last autumn, the general emphasized the strength of the Iraqi army and predicted as many as 20,000 U.S. casualties. "This guy contributed in no small degree to the Democratic opposition to the war," complains a Senate staffer...
...members in Los Angeles who feel stranded by Carl Icahn's decision to sell off the airline's transcontinental routes. Hundreds of Los Angeles-based crews who handle international flights out of New York must sometimes leave a full day early to snare a TWA standby seat. Many employees contend that the commute leaves them too fatigued to do their job, but they see little choice. Why not relocate? "Leave California and move to Queens?" asks an incredulous senior pilot. "You think I'm crazy...