Word: deserting
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After more than $2 billion and a decade of study, the Energy Department gave an amber light on Friday to proceed with the development of an underground nuclear waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert. The department cautioned that some issues still need to be resolved before a final decision is reached in 2001. "The report indicates that Yucca Mountain will be the site," says TIME science writer Michael Lemonick, "but now get ready for years of litigation from anti-nuclear activists...
...Operation Desert Fox", as the Pentagon dubbed the assault, was intended to last up to four days and involved American and British aircraft and U.S. warships. The Pentagon announced that extra aircraft and ground troops were being sent to the area...
...menace to his own people and to peace-loving people across the globe long enough; sooner rather than later he must be deposed in favor of a government committed to peace and stability in the Middle East. In this light, the most troubling question we have is whether Operation Desert Fox, planned to last just four days, will have a great enough impact on Iraq's capacity for harm. We hope President Clinton has a strategy for dealing with Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi threat that extends beyond the next three days...
WASHINGTON: With the second wave of Operation Desert Fox complete, the results from Round One are in. So how's the war going? "The strikes have hit a wide assortment of targets, and done a lot of damage," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. But simple demolition isn't why the U.S. is waging this war. "The point of all this is to reduce and cripple Saddam's weapons arsenal," Thompson says. "Just because there's a lot of destruction doesn't mean they're accomplishing that goal...
WASHINGTON: Now that Operation Desert Fox has the sky falling on Baghdad, it won't feel like victory to ordinary Iraqis. But although President Clinton says this trip was necessary in order for UN inspectors to be able to do their jobs, this may mean the end of ground-based reconaissance. In the end, the decision to launch missile strikes on Iraq is another big win for Saddam Hussein. "The strikes are tantamount to an acknowledgment of defeat from the U.S.," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. UNSCOM's on-the-ground effort at arms control through inspection...