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...Israel is unlikely to hit first, judging that the political fallout would outweigh the military benefits. If the U.S. detects that the Iraqis are fueling and preparing missiles aimed at Israel, a process that takes five to seven hours, it will probably try to destroy the launchers. But if Jerusalem detects signs of an Iraqi strike, Shamir may be impossible to restrain...
...near the witness table prove the maxim that there's nothing like a good scandal to bring lawyers out of the woodwork. Principal witness Edwin Gray was represented by Leonard Garment, who served as Richard Nixon's chief counsel throughout Watergate and advised Robert McFarlane during the Iran-contra fallout. Charles Ruff and Jim Hamilton, who are defending Senators John Glenn and Dennis DeConcini, respectively, served in the Watergate special prosecutor's office. Two lawyers besides Garment have hit the scandal triple crown. Senator Don Riegle is advised by Tom Green, who represented retired Major General Richard Secord after Iran...
...says Columbia's Gorman, someone who tends toward pessimism will not worry about just the economy but will also fret about getting sick or wonder whether war will break out in the Middle East. Barbara McCuen at the University of Nebraska at Omaha warns that there may be psychological fallout for the family. "The tensions come out at home," she says. "A five-year-old may not understand why there won't be a big Christmas...
...meantime, consumers and business leaders will have to adjust to a climate radically different from the 1980s, when the economy was reliable and forgiving. "We're in tough times in a very dicey world. There's going to be a lot of fallout," predicts Donald Jacobs, dean of Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. In large part, the U.S. and the world are paying for the excesses of the 1980s, in which companies, consumers and speculators lived far beyond their means. It may take as much global leadership and cooperation to avert a worldwide recession as it will...
...sidelines. Following a series of war games held by the general staff in an underground command bunker in the central part of the country, Israel's brass concluded that for now, the consequences of an Iraqi attack on Israel would be less severe than the political and military fallout from a first strike on Iraq...