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Sound coldhearted? Not as Israeli analysts see it. If Iraq dares to attack Israel now, Saddam Hussein will face the devastating wrath of both Israel and the U.S.-led forces massed in the region. But if Saddam survives and U.S. troops eventually depart, the analysts are convinced, Israel will one day have to fight alone against Baghdad. By then, Saddam may also have nuclear weapons at his disposal...
Until that time, it is no mystery why so many Harvard students arrive one September with bright eyes and bushy tails and depart four years later with cynical, jaded smirks...
...warmed-over variations on All in the Family and Mission: Impossible. The most audacious hits of the past few seasons -- thirtysomething, The Wonder Years, The Simpsons -- did not invent new genres, but at least they invested them with a distinctive style or voice. Even Twin Peaks did not depart radically from the conventions of TV soap operas: what the audience responded to was Lynch's idiosyncratic take on the format...
...undercut by other bellicose actions. Saddam formally designated the oil-rich land of Kuwait the 19th province of Iraq. Although Baghdad promised that the estimated 11,000 women and children among its 21,000 Western hostages would be free to leave last Wednesday, most of those who chose to depart were delayed by red tape. On Friday 19 Italians managed to depart, and the next day several hundred other foreigners were flown...
...Iraq there are an additional 500 Americans, 2,000 Britons, 8,000 Soviets and 3,000 Turks. Last week Iraq sealed its borders and Kuwait's. Later, 11 Americans, all of them Baghdad embassy staff and their dependents, except for 10-year-old Penelope Nabokov, were allowed to depart for Jordan. But there was no indication of when any others would be permitted to leave...