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Sharon's goal, by contrast, has less to do with an ideological commitment to Greater Israel than with the aggrandizement of his personal power. His strategy, breathtakingly obvious and all too promising, seems to be to subvert the peace process, provoke a crisis with Washington and then elbow Shamir aside in the resulting Cabinet upheaval...
Saudi and other Arab troops hit the strongest Iraqi fortifications near the coast. To their left were the U.S. 1st and 2nd Marine divisions, which had moved inland. The Marines attacked at points known to allied commanders as the "elbow" of Kuwait, where the border with Saudi Arabia turns sharply to the north, and the "armpit," where it abruptly sweeps west again. They were led in person by Lieut. General Walter Boomer, the top Marine in the gulf area, according to operational plans he had forwarded only 16 days earlier to the Pentagon, where they caused raised eyebrows because...
...Elbow Patches...
...maintained a film company, Hammer Productions, whose partial purpose was to film and tape the Flying Doctor wherever he went. Alas, the team could not follow him to his last destination. One would give much for a videotape of Hammer attempting to glad-hand St. Peter or seizing the elbow of Beelzebub, as he had so often grabbed Ronald Reagan's in the hope of a presidential pardon for Hammer's conviction for making illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 re- election campaign...
During a brief pushing match, an officer fell and injured his elbow, requiring four stiches to close the cut, Tempesta said. Harvard police then arrested Spooner and took him to the Cambridge police station...