Word: deployment
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Some influential Americans, including Henry Kissinger, have been urging Bush to launch a strike against Saddam before he has time to deploy the hostages as "human shields" at Iraqi military installations. But that option has been ruled out because the Administration believes it is essential for Iraq to be seen as the initiator of a military conflict. If America were to strike first and the Iraqi leader killed hostages in retaliation, says an Administration official, "we might well be blamed at home and abroad for recklessly provoking him." There is little doubt, however, that any actual harm to the hostages...
...last week to commit troops to a pan-Arab force and to honor the worldwide U.N. economic embargo against Iraq. At an emergency session of the Arab League in Cairo, 12 of the 20 delegations agreed "to respond to the request by Saudi Arabia and other gulf states to deploy Arab forces to support the armed forces there." Significantly, their numbers included Egypt and Syria, which have two of the Middle East's largest armies. Algeria and Yemen abstained, while Jordan, Sudan and Mauritania expressed reservations and did not even vote. Iraq of course rejected the package, supported by Libya...
Bush made the decision to deploy the Marines on Saturday while monitoring the Middle East situation during a working weekend at the presidential retreat in Camp David. The action, observed a White House official, "sends the same message that we sent when we went into Panama. When American lives and interests are at risk, this President will take military action." And while Bush's decision on Liberia was not linked to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, it came at an opportune moment for demonstrating U.S. resolve to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein...
Since February, Star Wars research has focused on an innovation called Brilliant Pebbles -- thousands of small, independently controlled satellites designed to home in on and destroy enemy nuclear warheads. "The technology is at hand" to deploy a Brilliant Pebbles system, General George Monahan, then SDI director, assured Congress. The Pentagon contends that 4,614 Brilliant Pebbles could be put into orbit for $55 billion, vs. $69 billion for previous schemes...
...release deadly radioactive plutonium or uranium from the cores. The safety problems, disclosed last week by the Washington Post, were promptly confirmed in public congressional hearings. The difficulties seem sure to complicate immensely a review under way of how many and what kind of nuclear weapons the U.S. should deploy in the light of easing cold-war tensions and prospective arms-control deals with the Soviets...