Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solid team player. There's no danger that he'll wander off freelance, like Stockman has a tendency to do. That gives him added clout in the White House...
...been considered, a telephone call interrupted the Cabinet meeting. It was Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Rafael Eitan. He tersely informed Begin that the attack had been a total success. For a further 70 minutes, the Cabinet considered how Israel should cope with the lesser danger of one of the Israeli warplanes being shot down or crashing on its return journey. A little before 7 p.m., another telephone call announced the safe return of all aircraft. Jubilantly, the gathering celebrated the event, and the meeting broke up. Begin had only one other chore to perform...
...Security Council did not condemn Israel for its Six-Day War attack on Egypt, since there was evidence of Egypt's aggressive intentions. Says Christian Tomuschat, professor of international law at the University of Bonn: "It always comes down to the same question: Was there a real and imminent danger that would have justified a preventive strike...
Almost no expert feels that Iraq's alleged bombmaking capability?in one year, as Israeli intelligence would have it, or ten, as nuclear regulators claim ?falls within the internationally recognized definition of "imminent danger." Legal scholars sympathetic to Israel suggest that the country should have given a public warning or ultimatum to Iraq, or taken other overt diplomatic action before launching the strike. Says Alfred Rubin, international law professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "It makes a difference politically. I would have thought they would have been better off lining up al lies...
Though the Israelis insist that Iraq was only months away from constructing a bomb many international nuclear experts doubt that the Iraqis would have had the technical expertise to build a nuclear device for another ten years. Says a French official: "The danger is not that Iraq would build a bomb in the next year or two , but that by the end of the decade Iraq would have the know-how to do whatever it pleases without anyone's assistance...