Word: gulf
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...after the end of the Gulf standoff, and Bibi Netanyahu has a new excuse for delaying implementation of the Wye agreement. The Israeli leader on Monday suspended Israeli troop withdrawals from the West Bank until Yasser Arafat drops his long-standing plan to declare a Palestinian state next May. Netanyahu had found a number of reasons to delay implementation of the deal over the past month, but Washington's need for Arab support on the Iraq crisis -- articulated by President Clinton in a Tuesday-night phone call to Netanyahu -- created the pressure for him to secure the necessary cabinet vote...
Eleventh hour? Not quite. The U.S. appears unlikely to strike in Iraq before it has a massive force in position -- and that buildup may be just the thing to convince Saddam to back down. "The U.S. is planning the biggest operation against Iraq since the Gulf War, and you don't start that until you have all your ducks in order," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "You can't afford to start the game prematurely...
...only military activity that any of us recall was the 1991 Persian Gulf War, which was portrayed more as a Defense Department special effects show than a protracted military conflict. Our generation seems blessed by the post-Cold War era where the United States acts as a global superpower unchallenged by adversaries...
...Today, at the ceremony, they rememberedeverybody from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf[War]," Kearns says...
...ahead, do your worst. Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz had been expected to hold out an olive branch at an international press conference Thursday; instead, even as U.S. forces streamed into the Gulf region, the angry and defiant Iraqi spokesman said Baghdad would make no concessions. "Iraq has accepted a U.S. attack as a fait accompli," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "They see it as the next step in their battle against sanctions. Iraq believes it can withstand U.S. attacks, and that pressure from Arab countries will eventually force Washington to back down...