Word: dreadfulness
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...same sentiments rang through Moscow. Dread of a prolonged guerrilla war that might not be confined to Chechnya -- the rebels have threatened terrorist attacks on Russian nuclear-power stations -- united communists, leaders of the once pro-Yeltsin Russia's Choice party and many other politicians in condemnation of the invasion. Vladimir Zhirinovsky's ultranationalists were the only major faction to voice even tepid support...
...Under terms negotiated in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan will destroy all their nuclear warheads, while the U.S. and Russia will greatly reduce the numbers they possess. The fact that the ceremony went almost unnoticed testifies to how effectively Washington and Moscow have worked to dispel the once rampant dread of nuclear holocaust. On a lower level, Yevgeni Kozhokin, director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, points out that thousands of ordinary Americans and Russians are working together every day on various projects and that "that's a new factor for stability that never existed before." Vice President...
That's what is so odd about the so-called Internet Liberation Front. While it claims to hate the "big boys" of the telecommunications industry and their dread firewalls, the group's targets include a pair of journalists and a small, regional Internet provider. "It doesn't make any sense to me," says Gene Spafford, a computer-security expert at Purdue University. "I'm more inclined to think it's a grudge against Josh Quittner...
Many Republicans were loath even to repeat the dread word. So it was left to a lowly House staff member who handles welfare policy for the Republican conference to deliver its likely epitaph. Were Republican lawmakers serious about the orphanage option? "If they were, they have buttoned their lips. This thing has been mercilessly crucified," he says. "I would not be surprised if they strike the provision from the bill, because it's given us so much grief...
More than that, the people of the Gaza Strip were filled with a dread that worse was still to come, that the countdown for a cataclysmic collision among Palestinians had begun. "The signs are alarming," said Eyad Sarraj, a human- rights activist in Gaza. "We have all the ingredients for a civil war." Certainly the bloodshed marked a new low for Arafat's already troubled administration. Self-rule has brought the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip little but disappointment, and their frustration is increasingly aimed at Arafat. Having turned his guns on compatriots, the Palestinian leader now faces a huge...