Word: foe
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...crafty foe wouldn't limit itself to the Pentagon's single, simple decoy. The enemy could slip its warhead inside a decoy balloon and deploy it along with a dozen identical balloons, forcing the Pentagon into a futile effort to destroy all of them. The warhead might be cloaked in a shroud of liquid nitrogen, chilling it so that the interceptor's heat-seeking sensors couldn't find it. Chemical or biological weapons might be deployed in dozens of bomblets far too numerous to destroy...
...last week, you would have thought the July 4th re-enactments had started early. "We struck a blow for freedom today," said G.O.P. Congressman Lindsey Graham. On the Senate floor, John McCain gave a similar fife-and-drum salute: "It is indeed a great day for democracy." The defeated foe: a proliferating breed of shadowy tax-exempt special-interest groups that must now disclose their political spending and donors. The patriot among patriots? McCain, who led the charge for the first successful effort to change campaign-finance laws in more than two decades...
...Secretary 39. Suit materials 43. Adlai's '56 running mate 46. "That's the __ of my worries" 47. Long-jawed swimmers 49. It has accepted a plan to end its two-year-old border war 51. Jessye Norman specialty 52. Jackie's dress designer 53. Faberge creation 54. Fokker foe 55. Jaworski's predecessor 56. IV hooker-uppers...
...Israeli government expressed its sorrow, but behind the scenes a more sober view reigned. Assad was, in some ways, a good foe to have: smart, reliable in his intransigence. Though in 1973 he sent hundreds of tanks swarming toward Israel on the Jewish Day of Atonement in a concerted effort with Egypt to regain Arab territory, once he'd lost the war, he kept to the truce with utmost scrupulousness...
Somebody wanted Vuk Draskovic dead, but it may not have been Slobodan Milosevic - after all, the Serbian strongman has little reason to fear the veteran opposition leader these days. In contrast to the string of professional hits that have eliminated both friend and foe of the Milosevic regime over the past year, Friday's attempt on Draskovic was an amateurish hit-or-miss affair, the gunmen spraying the opposition leader's holiday apartment with automatic rifle fire while he was vacationing in Montenegro. But not even an attempt on his life is likely to restore his declining political fortunes...